Several indicator and index frameworks have been reported to assess management efficiency and promote transparency, facilitating decision-making and innovation. However, they cannot be applied in cities with limited information, making them impractical. This study proposes a Sustainable Urban...

Urban water security is a multi-faceted water, socioeconomic, and governance challenge. The complexity of translating the holistic approach into policies is an important need for improving water resource management to achieve prosperity, equity, sustainability, and good governance. The city of...

Urban water utilities attempt to achieve financial sustainability by increasing tariffs to cover operational and maintenance costs and raise funds for infrastructural projects. Although the tariffs are relatively low compared to average household incomes in developed countries, concerns remain...

Integrated urban water management requires understanding of system boundaries and interactions among system components, which determine changes in urban water balance. A system dynamics model is developed to capture formal-informal water supply interactions. Employing a dynamic...

Failures in urban water planning have disastrous consequences not only for the functioning of the city but also for the health and well-being of urban residents, disproportionately affecting especially vulnerable low-income communities and communities of color. Systemic injustices emerge out of...

This report outlines a proactive vision of how development of the supplementary service provider in the water sector can promote citywide inclusive water supply, ensure rapid progress is made in achieving SDG 6.1, and deliver on the green, resilient, and inclusive development and jobs...

We estimate the impacts of two interventions implemented as field experiments in informal settlements by Nairobi’s water and sanitation utility to improve revenue collection efficiency and last mile connection loan repayment: (i) face-to-face engagement between utility staff and customers to...

This paper examines the concept of cost recovery of water services under the EU Water Framework Directive (WFD), including the different types of costs and cost-recovery mechanisms. It presents the state of play in the implementation of cost recovery in EU Member States, for financial,...

We estimate the impacts of two interventions implemented as field experimentsin informal settlements by Nairobi’s water and sanitation utility to improverevenue collection efficiency and last mile connection loan repayment: (i)face-to-face engagement between utility staff and customers to...

This paper considers a largely unknown public-health practice in the United States: the use of lead pipes to distribute household tap water. Municipalities first installed lead pipes during the late nineteenth century. In 1897, about half of all American municipalities used lead water pipes....

This study estimates the impacts of two interventions implemented as field experiments in informal settlements by Nairobi's water and sanitation utility to improve revenue collection efficiency and last mile connection loan repayment: (i) face-to-face engagement between utility staff and...

The EU Water Framework Directive (WFD) outlines an integrated framework for water management. The major objective of the WFD is that member states should achieve at least good ecological status of all national waters. This ambitious target can only be achieved with efficient water management...

Big Data carries properties i.e. complexity, ‘V' factors(eg.volume, velocity, variety etc), multivariable data which has to be stored, retrieved and distributed the information. Bikaner is a one of the big city with respect to population and area of Rajasthan. It comes under the ‘Thar...

This guidance note presents an overview of the benefits of improving energy efficiency in urban water and wastewater utilities (WWUs). It defines the typical energy efficiency and load management measures and the process to identify and assess these measures. The note addresses some of the major...

Using data from the International Benchmarking Network for Water and Sanitation Utilities, this paper on the water sector in pourashavas (municipalities) in Bangladesh provides an analysis of the trends in the water sector development over 2010-16. The main purpose of the paper is to examine the...

The poor are most likely to suffer from a service provider that cannot reliably supply high-quality water through the piped network. Effectively assisting the poor is a key component of a successful tariff reform process. This paper provides practical, up-to-date advice that water utilities,...

Preface -- Chapter 1. Privatization of Public City Gas Utilities in Japan: Reasons, Objectives, and Methods -- Chapter 2. Survival Analysis of Public Gas Utility Firms in the Japanese Urban Gas Industry -- Chapter 3. Concession in infrastructure management: A case of public gas service in Japan...

The COVID-19 pandemic has acted as a magnifying glass on pressing water and sanitation challenges in African cities, stressing and widening inequalities, especially for the 56% of the urban population living in informal settlements, lacking basic handwashing facilities, and relying on public...

"Die Wasserwirtschaft befindet sich in einem Spannungsfeld zwischen Profit und Gemeinwohl. Dieses Buch soll Erfahrungen, Denkansätze und Perspektiven von Kommunalisierung und Privatisierung der Wasserwirtschaft diskutieren, um auf dieser Grundlage nachhaltigkeitsgerechte Modelle der...

"This book examines the role played by business in urban water governance by analyzing the evolution of the global private water sector along with four public-private partnerships in Mexico and the U.S. The local nature of water services often hides the global developments behind the rise of...