scholarly journals Financing water and sanitation services: two types of funds for facing investment challenges in Brazil

2020 ◽  
Vol 12 (1) ◽  
pp. 22-31
Author(s):  
Vitor Carvalho Queiroz ◽  
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Nilo De Oliveira Nascimento ◽  
Matheus Valle de Carvalho e Oliveira ◽  
◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Water Supply ◽  
Service Provision ◽  
State Level ◽  
Investment Strategy ◽  
Global South ◽  
The State ◽  
Water And Sanitation ◽  
Sanitation Services ◽  
The Poor ◽  
Sustainable Investment

In the countries of the Global South, investments in the water and sanitation sector have historically not met the overall needs. The poor are generally the most affected. The creation of funds to support universalization of water supply and sewerage services may represent an important instrument as a sustainable investment strategy. This study displays the features and characteristics of two distinct fund models at the state level in Brazil. It indicates that despite challenges these funds offer opportunities for meeting the main objective of the water and sanitation policy in Brazil, the universalization of service provision. It suggests also that the Brazilian experience might be adapted to other contexts.

Privatisation of urban water service provision: the Kenyan experiment

Water Policy ◽  
2006 ◽  
Vol 8 (4) ◽  
pp. 313-324 ◽  
Author(s):  
O. A. K'Akumu ◽  
P. O. Appida
Keyword(s):  
Service Provision ◽  
Urban Areas ◽  
Local Authority ◽  
Economic Viability ◽  
Urban Water ◽  
Local Authorities ◽  
Water And Sanitation ◽  
Sanitation Services ◽  
The Poor ◽  
Set Up

One of the services that have been poorly provided in the urban areas in Kenya is water and sanitation. There are many reasons, which can be attributed to poor provision of water and sanitation as undertaken by the local authorities in Kenya. The path to remedy the poor provision of water and sanitation has been charted in privatisation in the form of commercialisation. Commercialisation in Kenya was first implemented on an experimental basis in three urban areas: Nyeri, Eldoret and Nakuru. This involved formation of a publicly owned water company as an agent of the local authority. The companies formed as a result were set up and operated according to the provisions of the Companies Act chapter 486 of the Laws of Kenya. This paper looks at the genesis of privatisation of water services based on the contributions of GTZ, UWASAM and KFW to an experiment in formulating and implementing privatisation in the three urban areas. The outcome of the experiment is then compared to the current on-going exercise of water privatisation by local authorities. Privatisation of water and sanitation services is expected to solve the problem of poor and inadequate service provision that hitherto characterised urban areas. It would do this by achieving its goals of decentralisation and economic viability. However, the outcome of the experiment indicated that privatisation failed to achieve these two fundamental goals. For that matter, privatisation failed to meet its intended objectives of solving the woes of service provision in urban areas. A close examination of the current privatisation indicates that the operation has again failed to achieve its fundamental goals of decentralisation and economic viability. The failure of the current exercise in meeting the objectives of ridding the urban areas of water woes can therefore be predicted on this basis.

Securing 2020 vision for 2030: climate change and ensuring resilience in water and sanitation services

2010 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
pp. 2-16 ◽  
Author(s):  
Guy Howard ◽  
Katrina Charles ◽  
Kathy Pond ◽  
Anca Brookshaw ◽  
Rifat Hossain ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Drinking Water ◽  
Water Supply ◽  
Climate Changes ◽  
Water And Sanitation ◽  
Sanitation Services ◽  
Development Goals ◽  
Management Approaches ◽  
Sanitation Systems ◽  
Water Supply And Sanitation

Drinking-water supply and sanitation services are essential for human health, but their technologies and management systems are potentially vulnerable to climate change. An assessment was made of the resilience of water supply and sanitation systems against forecast climate changes by 2020 and 2030. The results showed very few technologies are resilient to climate change and the sustainability of the current progress towards the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) may be significantly undermined. Management approaches are more important than technology in building resilience for water supply, but the reverse is true for sanitation. Whilst climate change represents a significant threat to sustainable drinking-water and sanitation services, through no-regrets actions and using opportunities to increase service quality, climate change may be a driver for improvements that have been insufficiently delivered to date.

scholarly journals A comprehensive framework for analyzing co-production of urban water and sanitation services in the Global South

2019 ◽  
Vol 44 (8) ◽  
pp. 886-918 ◽  
Author(s):  
Giuseppe Faldi ◽  
Federica Natalia Rosati ◽  
Luisa Moretto ◽  
Jacques Teller
Keyword(s):  
Global South ◽  
Urban Water ◽  
Water And Sanitation ◽  
Sanitation Services ◽  
Comprehensive Framework

scholarly journals CEDAE E OS PRINCIPAIS PROBLEMAS ENCONTRADOS NA PRESTAÇÃO DE SERVIÇO NO ESTADO DO RIO DE JANEIRO.

2021 ◽  
Vol 9 (207) ◽  
pp. 1-20
Author(s):  
GIVANILDO FAUSTINO FERREIRA ◽  
Karla Regina Ferreira Pessoa ◽  
KAROLINE FIGUIREDO RODRIGUES
Keyword(s):  
Data Collection ◽  
Literature Review ◽  
Water Supply ◽  
Service Provision ◽  
Rio De Janeiro ◽  
Qualitative Approach ◽  
The State ◽  
Provision Of Services ◽  
Positive Point ◽  
Type Of Management

This article aims to analyze the provision of services and the form of management of Cedae offered to the population of the State of Rio de Janeiro, conducting a survey that seeks to reveal how the service is and the type of management practiced for resolving cases. With a very reflective question: What are the biggest deficiencies in CEDAE's service provision? The research aims to signal the importance of attending the service and management in the development of the demands of the reported cases. The adopted methodology is a research of a basic, descriptive nature, through the qualitative approach to the problem through the literature review, using articles, books, theses, monographs and other means, and the data collection you gave through Reclame Aqui website, analyzing the main complaints by category. As a result, there was an undue charge, lack of water supply and its bad quality. It was possible to observe that, despite the deficiencies in the provision of the service, the positive point was the agility in the service.

Measuring the effectiveness of multi-sector approaches to service provision

2002 ◽  
Vol 2 (4) ◽  
pp. 189-196
Author(s):  
K. Caplan ◽  
D. Jones
Keyword(s):  
Service Provision ◽  
Local Level ◽  
Strategic Partnerships ◽  
Water And Sanitation ◽  
Business Partners ◽  
The Poor ◽  
The World ◽  
Successful Approach ◽  
The Creation ◽  
Partnership Approach

Sustainable development is a global imperative, and strategic partnerships involving business, government and civil society may present a successful approach for the development of communities around the world. Business Partners for Development (BPD) is an informal network of partners that seeks to demonstrate that partnerships among these three sectors can achieve more at the local level than any of the groups acting individually. The Water and Sanitation Cluster of the BPD has been working with eight partnership projects around the world to determine the efficacy of the partnership approach in providing water and sanitation to the poor. Measuring the effectiveness of these partnerships, however, proves challenging. Different interested and affected groups will measure the success of the initiative along different sets of criteria. Partnership elicits qualitative values such as trust, responsiveness and flexibility that are more likely to be “measured” by gut reactions rather than by more mechanical means. However, the creation and maintenance of a carefully selected set of indicators for a specific partnership project should enhance relations by increasing clarity and building stronger communication channels. The paper below provides considerations for the creation of partnership indicators.

scholarly journals Inclusive water poverty index: a holistic approach for helping local water and sanitation services planning

Water Policy ◽  
2017 ◽  
Vol 19 (4) ◽  
pp. 758-772
Author(s):  
Janvier Kini
Keyword(s):  
Holistic Approach ◽  
Inclusive Development ◽  
Poverty Index ◽  
Water And Sanitation ◽  
Sanitation Services ◽  
The Poor ◽  
Water Poverty Index ◽  
Central Interest ◽  
Development Goals ◽  
Local Water

This paper addresses two approaches to guiding the inclusion of the poor and vulnerable in clean water and sanitation programmes in the framework of Sustainable Development Goals. It proposes an operational and adapted participatory approach for identifying the poorest and most vulnerable, which has become a central interest for inclusive development policies worldwide post Millennium Development Goals. Then, it proposes an inclusive water poverty index for the inclusion of the poor and vulnerable. This index, with six components, materializes the spatial and temporal equity in the distribution of water and sanitation services through a given district or municipality, particularly in developing countries.

scholarly journals Water supply and wastewater sector as state regulation object

2018 ◽  
Vol 6 (9) ◽  
pp. 5-15
Author(s):  
I. I. Krylova
Keyword(s):  
Drinking Water ◽  
Water Supply ◽  
State Policy ◽  
Water Discharge ◽  
State Level ◽  
Research Direction ◽  
State Regulation ◽  
The State ◽  
Natural Monopoly ◽  
Public Authorities

The sphere of water supply and sewage is directly related to a human and society life including a certain creation of life conditions with satisfaction of the immediate needs of a person, and so on. Despite the time, era, change of historical conditions, ideology and culture, the need for water and services is associated with its constant. Just the state policy, goals and tasks of public authorities aimed at regulation of this sphere are changing. The state regulation in any sphere of economic relations is the influence of the state through the normative legal acts adoption, regulations and compliance control including the control by the subjects of the legislation sphere, and application of coercive measures in case of violation of these requirements. In this article, the author considers the water supply and drainage sphere as an object of state regulation, and analyzes the definition of the concept in this field, which is disclosed in various sources, as well as its components and characteristics, and methods of state regulation of the sphere. Formation and development of the water supply and water discharge sector of Ukraine took place as an integral part of housing and communal services. And only since 2002 the sphere of water supply and sewage became regulated by the separate Law of Ukraine «On Potable Water and Drinking Water Supply», which has defined the main concepts, subjects and objects of this phere, and the principles of state policy. While exploring the conditions of state regulated market economy transition, the principles of housing and communal services reform, the author analyzes the scope of water supply and drainage as a market for water supply and sewage services, and reveals its characteristic features. It is very important to identify the specific features inherent in the services of water supply and discharge – the demand inelasticity; dependence of the services supply on the availability of networks; availability of technological and infrastructure constraints in providing services; lack of any alternative to drinking water and water supply and sewage services; water supply and drainage are technologically separate processes carried out using various engineering systems. Paying no attention to the privileged position of natural monopoly entities providing centralized water supply and sewage services, the availability of production facilities, material and financial resources, a guaranteed market for sales of services and the lack of competition, the sphere of water supply and drainage (as well as the sphere of housing and communal services), unlike other branches of natural monopolies, is unprofitable. The statistical data in the field testify that today housing and communal services are the most technically backward sector of the economy with many accumulated problems. Reforms conducted at the state level do not provide the expected result. Until now, at the state level, there are no clearly formulated mechanisms for creating conditions, which would balance the interests of market participants, and protect the interests of consumers in providing them with good quality public services at reasonable prices, and create conditions for the effective functioning of natural monopoly entities, while attracting investments to the development of housing and communal services. And the fact that the water supply and sanitation sector is one of the most attractive in terms of reliability and investment return in the world practice, confirms the correctness of the chosen research direction.

Strategies to close water supply and demand gap

2007 ◽  
Vol 7 (4) ◽  
pp. 103-110
Author(s):  
Gustaf Olsson
Keyword(s):  
Water Supply ◽  
Supply And Demand ◽  
Electrical Energy ◽  
Monitoring And Control ◽  
Water And Sanitation ◽  
Sanitation Services ◽  
European Water ◽  
The World ◽  
And Control ◽  
Water Supply And Sanitation

The growing water and sanitation crisis in the world calls for enormous efforts from water professionals as well as economic and political leaders. The climate change contributes to the acuteness of the problem, with dryer areas in some parts of the world and severe floods and rains in other parts. The European Water Supply and Sanitation Technology Platform (WSSTP) is an industry driven organisation aiming to strengthen the potential for technological innovation and the competitiveness of the European Water Industry but is also a response to global challenges and regional demands to ensure safe, secure and sustainable water and sanitation services for the benefit of industry, the society and the environment. The supply of electrical energy has to be carefully considered as a pre-requisite for water supply and sanitation. The production of biogas can be significantly increased by using instrumentation and control. The use of monitoring and control has wide consequences for safe and reliable water supply and sanitation.

Zero subsidy strategies for accelerating access to rural water and sanitation services

2011 ◽  
Vol 63 (5) ◽  
pp. 1037-1043 ◽  
Author(s):  
Peter A. Harvey
Keyword(s):  
Low Income ◽  
Service Provision ◽  
Low Income Countries ◽  
Water And Sanitation ◽  
Sanitation Services ◽  
The Past ◽  
Self Sufficiency ◽  
Rural Water ◽  
Sustainable Services ◽  
One Year

Community-Led Total Sanitation (CLTS) and Household-Led Water Supply (HLWS) are zero subsidy approaches to water and sanitation service provision that have been recently piloted in Zambia. The increases in access to sanitation and toilet usage levels achieved in one year under CLTS were far greater than any achieved in subsidised programmes of the past. Similarly, HLWS has shown that rural households are willing to invest in their own infrastructure and that they can increase coverage of safe water without external hardware subsidy. The promotion of self-sufficiency rather than dependency is a key component of both approaches, as is the focus on the development of sustainable services rather than the external provision of infrastructure. Zero subsidy strategies have the potential to deliver far more rapid increases in service coverage and higher levels of sustainability than the conventional subsidised approaches that predominate in low-income countries.

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