La tarification de l'eau au Maroc : comment servir différentes causes ?

Tenneson, Mathilde; Rojat, Dominique

doi:10.3917/afco.205.0151

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“…In Morocco, to reach its operating balance, the national operator implemented two national solidarity taxes in 1985 and 1998. These taxes are charged on raw water sold by the national operator to municipal utilities and private companies in the largest cities outside its perimeter (Tenneson and Rojat, 2003). Due to these subsidies, the operator did not need operating grants from the State for a few years, but in the 2000s it became difficult to maintain the financial equilibrium and even more so to meet new objectives set by the State, including a significant increase in water service rate and development of sewerage.…”

Section: Water Access and Dual Water Supply In Rural Areasmentioning

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Water pricing in Tunisia: Can an original rate structure achieve multiple objectives?

Favré

Montginoul

2018

Utilities Policy

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Section: Water Access and Dual Water Supply In Rural Areasmentioning

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Water pricing in Tunisia: Can an original rate structure achieve multiple objectives?

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Montginoul

2018

Utilities Policy

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“…The other relevant change introduced by the government was the new pricing system, justified as an economic incentive in the water allocation decision made by producers (Tenneson and Rojat 2003). Already proposed by the Agricultural Investment Code of 1969, the water tariffs were initially aimed to cover equipment and maintenance costs.…”

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Mega‐irrigation and neoliberalism in postcolonial states: evolution and crisis in the gharb plain, morocco

Minoia

2012

Geografiska Annaler: Series B, Human Geography

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ABSTRACT. This article explores the development, evolution and impacts of large‐scale irrigation schemes in the formation of the postcolonial state of Morocco and in more recent neoliberal decades. In particular, the article focuses on the Gharb Plain in the Sebou River basin, which was targeted by huge investments to become the core region for national development. In this area, three stages of development – colonial, early independent, and the aggressive politique des grandes barrages post‐1970 – have created two clearly different and successive landscapes. The traditional landscape has been overlain, and largely obliterated, by colonial and postcolonial governmental landscapes, reflected through different spatial, economic, cultural, and political patterns over time. In the present, a fourth stage of neoliberal development is occurring in the landscape, in which diffused poverty and ecosystem collapse coincide with greater concentrated wealth and the building of technological infrastructures. The article aims to complement critical studies on neoliberal environments, by focusing in particular on the manipulation, dispossession and commodification of water and land resources in irrigated agriculture in Morocco. These emerging rationalities are closely related to the changing policies of the contemporary Moroccan state.

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Are Households Willing to Finance the Cost of Individual Water Supply? Case Study in Central Tunisia

Favré

2021

Water Econs. Policy

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In developing countries, the Sustainable Development Goals (SDG) set by the United Nations and the expectations expressed by modern local populations call for universal water access through individual connections (IC), to be achieved by 2030. An ambitious target such as this presents the challenge of how best to achieve the goal of funding high-quality but expensive water supply systems, to serve populations with low incomes. This raises the question of the assessment of the relevant households’ willingness to pay (WTP) for improved water service in rural areas, in particular in the context of developing countries. This paper examines this issue using a case study in Tunisia. As with other developing countries, Tunisia faces difficult challenges: the increasing demand for water and the inherent cost that is involved must be met whilst climate change is likely to increase the pressure on already stressed resources. The approach applied in this paper is to assess the households’ WTP using a contingent valuation (CV) method in a dedicated field household survey in Central Tunisia. The particular governorate in which the survey was conducted was facing at the time of this study high social expectations, in particular, coming under increasing demand from inhabitants of rural communities to be individually connected to water supplies in the same way as their urban counterparts who were served by SONEDE, the national utility company. The results of the survey reveal that non-SONEDE-piped households were not willing to pay the amount required in order to have an individual connection (the average bid was USD 443 whereas the expected contribution is above USD 800). It was found that a household’s WTP for an individual connection had a direct relationship with its trust in the current water management model, alternative modes of supply, and its socio-economic characteristics. However, if already connected, households would be willing to pay more than their current water expenses, although the amount they were willing to pay was still lower than the sustainable water cost enabling long-term maintenance of the system. SONEDE-piped households stated a clear WTP the amount required to keep water services for the future (average bid of USD 14 to add to their current quarterly water bill of USD 14). Based on these results, this paper concludes by highlighting several policy implications.

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La tarification de l'eau au Maroc : comment servir différentes causes ?

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Water pricing in Tunisia: Can an original rate structure achieve multiple objectives?

Water pricing in Tunisia: Can an original rate structure achieve multiple objectives?

Mega‐irrigation and neoliberalism in postcolonial states: evolution and crisis in the gharb plain, morocco

Are Households Willing to Finance the Cost of Individual Water Supply? Case Study in Central Tunisia

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