Efficiency of Urban Water Supply Utilities in India

Tiwari, Piyush; Gulati, Manisha

doi:10.1080/07900627.2010.548315

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“…The provisioning of water supply and sanitation services is ill managed in most of the Indian cities (Anand, 2007;McKenzie and Ray, 2009;Tiwari and Gulati, 2011) and Patna is no exception. In Bakker's (2007) terms, the case of Patna presents a case of endemic 'state failure' supposedly due to a poor or an inept state machinery to manage water supply systems.…”

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“…Only a few selected cities have public utilities in the form of city water boards, such as Delhi, Chennai, Hyderabad and Bangalore (Tiwari and Gulati, 2011). Tiwari and Gulati (2011) depict the 'quagmire of institutions: state departments, state-level boards and corporations, statutory and non-statutory authorities at the city level, and urban local bodies' involved in the water supply in India cities, but they fail to recognize the private and public appropriation of water to meet drinking water needs. This is a unique feature of Indian cities, where great chunks of population are 'not served' by the public supply system.…”

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Sustainable and Socially Inclusive Development of Urban Water Provisioning

Sharma

2015

Environment and Urbanization ASIA

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Over the years, the nature of drinking water supply and associated practices of consumption and regulation has enormously evolved in the cities of the global south. The existing literature on water provisioning in Indian cities is mostly skewed towards the megacities. The million plus cities, which are the new sites of 'urbanization', are less studied. In this context, the article analyzes the current scenario of drinking water provisioning in Patna and attempts to situate the 'water economies' in the broader debates on development, state and sustainability.Patna presents a pertinent case of endemic 'state failure' supposedly due to an inept state machinery to manage 'water economies' which led to unregulated private and community appropriation of groundwater to meet drinking water needs posing critical sustainability challenges at the city level. The article argues that sustainable development of urban centres will depend on how, in the long run, the unregulated exploitation of natural resources (in this case water) is managed through appropriate 'institutional mechanism' and how an equitable water provisioning is ensured to the citizens.

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Sustainable and Socially Inclusive Development of Urban Water Provisioning

Sharma

2015

Environment and Urbanization ASIA

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“…Most O&M costs are spent on salaries and power bill and very less is spent on maintenance of the assets (Tiwari & Gulati, 2011).…”

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“…The institutional arrangement of providing water service varies across states and also within the state. Mostly, "state departments, state level boards, and corporations, statutory and non-statutory authorities at the city level, and urban local bodies (ULBs)" are the institutions involved in providing water service all over the country (Tiwari & Gulati, 2011). Provision of water supply is a state subject carried out by the local government and varies all over the country.…”

Section: Urban Water Supply In Indiamentioning

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“…In most developing countries, under‐recovery of O&M cost is a major problem with urban water service (Bandyopadhyay, 2015; Misra & Goldar, 2008; Pushpangadan, 2003; Tiwari & Gulati, 2011). Low tariffs, low coverage of registered connections, high levels of leakage, high rate of NRW, poor metering practices, inefficient billing and collection are major problems associated with under‐recovery of O&M cost of urban water service (Gupta, 2011; Nag & Garg, 2013; Sridhar, 2007).…”

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