Reform of water institutions: review of evidences and international experiences

Araral, Eduardo

doi:10.2166/wp.2010.011

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“…There have been previous review studies on the impact of PSP in infrastructure sectors such as Harris (2003), Marin (2009), Araral (2010, Haanyika (2006), Williams and Ghanadan (2006), Jamasb et al (2004), Wamukonya (2003), Bacon and Besant-Jones (2001), Lobina (2005), Kirkpatrick, Parker, and Zhang (2006) and Bayliss (2003). A major difference of this study as compared to the previous studies is the use of systematic methods to identify the studies for inclusion in the review.…”

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Impact of Private Sector Participation on access and quality of services: systematic review of evidence from the electricity, telecommunications and water supply sectors

John

Mahalingam

Deep

et al. 2014

Journal of Development Effectiveness

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Individual studies on the impact of such Private Sector Participation (PSP) have yielded mixed results. This study synthesises evidence on the impact of PSP on access and quality outcomes. Studies to be included for the review were selected using well-defined inclusion, exclusion and quality appraisal criteria. Meta-regression analysis of 90 observations from 17 econometric studies was used to synthesise the evidences. Evidence on access was stronger as compared to that of quality. This indicated that PSP as a tool for improving quality of services has not been effective. Among the three sectors studied, telecom sector showed the strongest evidence of a true empirical effect between access and PSP, indicating that PSP has been an effective strategy to improve telecom access. In the case of electricity and water supply, the evidence indicated a positive and negative impact on access, respectively, though the effect was not significant. Overall, the results suggested that the effectiveness of PSP in improving access and quality in infrastructure services delivery has been limited and underlines the need for creating appropriate monitoring and incentive structures to make PSP interventions more effective in improving outcomes.

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Impact of Private Sector Participation on access and quality of services: systematic review of evidence from the electricity, telecommunications and water supply sectors

John

Mahalingam

Deep

et al. 2014

Journal of Development Effectiveness

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“…In 1998, the water and sanitation system of the entire province (approximately 150,000 km 2 ) was given by the provincial government in concession to only one private company (Saltiel, 2003). During this private period, the company consistently failed to provide services to the poorest areas of the city, as also reported for other Argentinean provinces or for other countries where water services had been privatized (Azpiazu et al, 2005;Hall & Lobina, 2006;Castro, 2007;Araral, 2010). In part due to these problems, but also responding to local political changes, the provincial government rescinded the contract in 2009 and the service reverted to a state-owned company (CoSAySa).…”

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Water-conservation policies in perspective: insights from a Q-method study in Salta, Argentina

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Narratives and discourses on issues such as water management and other complex social-ecological systems respond partly to people's worldviews or social perspectives. Knowledge of these perspectives might help increase the rate of success of specific initiatives related to water conservation and could be an important tool to improve water governance. A study performed in the city of Salta, Argentina, revealed the existence of four social perspectives on issues related to water management. Perspectives were obtained with Q methodology by interviewing 29 local stakeholders. Participants sorted 68 statements organized around four themes (service provider; water rights; public participation; water availability) according to their degree of agreement or disagreement. The findings support our contention that there are clear links between social perspectives and the rate of success of some water policies implemented by the local water utility in the past 15 years, in particular the promotion and use of household water meters and awareness campaigns launched to reduce water consumption. We show that the limited success of these initiatives was partly due to ignorance or disregard of social perspectives on water management.

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“…The government held in reserve the right to reprivatize the new company [64]. Low investments and failure to provide services to the poorest areas of the city were a constant during both the public and private periods, as was also reported in other parts of the country and the world [65,66].…”

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Governance, Sustainability and Decision Making in Water and Sanitation Management Systems

Iribarnegaray

Seghezzo

2012

Sustainability

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Abstract:We explore the connections between the concepts of governance and sustainability and discuss their possible roles in water and sanitation management systems (WSMS). We see governance as a decision-making process that drives the relationship between social institutions and the public affairs of a given society. We understand sustainability as a combination of spatial, temporal, and personal aspects, and we argue that this definition is more comprehensive than the traditional triple bottom line of economy, environment, and society. We combined these two concepts into a new conceptual framework of "governance for sustainability" that is theoretically sound and arguably appropriate to understand local WSMS. To illustrate this framework, we developed and estimated a Sustainable Water Governance Index (SWGI) for the city of Salta, Argentina. This aggregated index was calculated with data from literature, information from the city's water company and other local institutions, field visits, and interviews. The SWGI for Salta obtained an overall score of 49 on a 0-100 scale, which fell into the "danger" range. We discuss the advantages and limitations of the method and conclude that aggregated indices such as the SWGI, complemented with contextual information, can be a helpful decision-making tool to promote more sustainable WSMS.

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Reform of water institutions: review of evidences and international experiences

Cited by 30 publications

References 27 publications

Impact of Private Sector Participation on access and quality of services: systematic review of evidence from the electricity, telecommunications and water supply sectors

Impact of Private Sector Participation on access and quality of services: systematic review of evidence from the electricity, telecommunications and water supply sectors

Water-conservation policies in perspective: insights from a Q-method study in Salta, Argentina

Governance, Sustainability and Decision Making in Water and Sanitation Management Systems

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