Substantial structural reform has occurred in the water and wastewater sectors of Australia’s major urban centers over the past two decades. This reform has involved the corporatization of government assets and some vertical and horizontal separation. This paper analyses the performance of...

Over the past twenty years there has been increasing interest in the productivity and efficiency of, and the optimal structures for, the water supply and wastewater industries. In part this interest has manifested itself in the increased use of numerous statistical techniques to determine the...

Since the 1980s, one of the most important parts of Australian microeconomic reform has been the restructuring of the country's government owned utilities - including water supply and wastewater disposal. This process was encouraged by the perception that the state owned authorities performed...

In recent years a number of regulatory agencies have been established in small, island countries to regulate the utilities industry. These countries have limited resources available to them because of their small size, isolation and in some cases the developing nature of their economies. In...