Factors affecting operation and maintenance cost recovery of urban water supply: An evidence from an eastern Indian states

Mohanty, Tapasi; Rout, Himanshu Sekhar

doi:10.1002/pa.2459

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“…Therefore, only regular maintenance can prevent the frequent replacement and damage. O&M cost from user charges could be achieved by enhancing energy efficiency, adopting innovative way to reduce repair and replacement cost, increasing number of domestic connection, and raising per capita rate of supply (Mohanty & Rout, 2020).…”

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Financial sustainability of rural water supply: An analysis of cost recovery, revenue collection, and efficiency

Mohanty

Rout

2022

Water & Environment J

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Maintaining a financial sustainable pipe water supply (PWS) is one of the serious challenges in sustainable provision of water supply in rural areas. Poor revenue collection and willingness to pay for the service is adding severity to the problem. This study analyses the factors affecting revenue collection in rural water utilities and measures its efficiency in maximizing revenue and average hour of water supply per day. The findings convey that cost recovery is a failure in rural water supply even they are not able to generate revenue. Inactive community participation, the notion of free water supply, unaccountable payment is main reason for poor revenue collection. Therefore, active community participations, educating the household on water supply, adoption of accountable payment mode will be a step towards revenue generation. To attain efficiency, the utilities can expand their output revenue and hours of water supply by 22% without altering their input. This study is an empirical contribution in the field of sustainable provision of water supplies, which address the problem of poor revenue generation in rural water supply and find out the reason for it.

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Financial sustainability of rural water supply: An analysis of cost recovery, revenue collection, and efficiency

Mohanty

Rout

2022

Water & Environment J

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Overlapping Local Water Supply Regimes

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Madhoo²

2022

Vanishing Borders of Urban Local Finance

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Consumers’ perception of piped water supply and their willingness to pay for improved water supply: evidence from an Eastern Indian state

Mohanty,

Rout

2024

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The objectives of the study are to analyse the perception of consumers on piped water supply, the consumers’ willingness to pay for improved water supply, and the factors that affect it. The sample unit is the consumer household of the public health divisions. The sample size is 181. A multistage random sampling procedure was adopted to choose the sample household. Descriptive statistics and structural equation models are used to analyse the data. This study found that consumer satisfaction is influenced by water supply quantity, pressure, timing, and visual aspects. The main factors causing interruptions include pipeline breakage, cyclone impact, summer water depletion, construction work, motor damage, and reservoir cleaning. Households are not well-informed about advance payment, its benefits, and the proper procedure for obtaining a receipt. Household income, education, satisfaction with water quality, the period of the service association, supply water price, and sufficiency of water during summer directly affect consumers’ willingness to pay. Discontent with appearance and taste affects quality dissatisfaction and indirectly willingness to pay.

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Factors affecting operation and maintenance cost recovery of urban water supply: An evidence from an eastern Indian states

Cited by 3 publications

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Financial sustainability of rural water supply: An analysis of cost recovery, revenue collection, and efficiency

Financial sustainability of rural water supply: An analysis of cost recovery, revenue collection, and efficiency

Overlapping Local Water Supply Regimes

Consumers’ perception of piped water supply and their willingness to pay for improved water supply: evidence from an Eastern Indian state

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