Empirical Evidence for Efficiency in Provision of Drinking Water

Benito, Bernardino; Faura, Úrsula; Guillamón, María‐Dolores; Ríos, Ana‐María

doi:10.1061/(asce)wr.1943-5452.0001049

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“…Factors such as age (Beal et al, 2013;Tang et al, 2013;Attari, 2014;Chang et al, 2016;Dean et al, 2016;Piedra-Muñoz et al, 2018;Khair et al, 2019), gender (Beal et al, 2013;Attari, 2014;Piedra-Muñoz et al, 2018), education level (Beal et al, 2013;Chang et al, 2016;Dean et al, 2016;Piedra-Muñoz et al, 2018;Khair et al, 2019), information (Dean et al, 2016), networking (Tang et al, 2013;Dean et al, 2016), household characteristics (Russell and Fielding, 2010;Dreibelbis et al, 2013), and population density (Benito et al, 2019;Zhang and Xu, 2019) are the key socio-demographic factors that contextualize water use.…”

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confidence: 99%

“…For instance, Kadibadiba et al (2018) observed that high levels of domestic consumption are associated with the daily desire for cleanness, comfort, and convenience in certain cultures. Household size and composition are linked with economic capability to make investments, e.g., on water saving devices; while population density influences the operation and performance of water utilities due to economies of scale, resulting from consequent size of utilities (Benito et al, 2019).…”

Section: Socioeconomic Factorsmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…The metering and monitoring of water use are often overlooked. Also, flawed estimations of water requirements, water balance, and allocation (Manouseli et al, 2019), and management of water systems (Benito et al, 2019) can lead to water use inefficiency. Timely and accurate information is therefore required to plan and implement efficient use of water (Manouseli et al, 2019).…”

Section: Technical Factorsmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Therefore, water users and institutions have taken actions toward improving water use efficiency (WUE) (Bruneau et al, 2013). Global and local policies, aiming at reducing water demand, have focused mainly on two sectors with a relatively high number of users and relevant for water security: households (Attari, 2014;Manouseli et al, 2019), and farmers (Bruneau et al, 2013;Tang et al, 2013;Chang et al, 2016;Roobavannan et al, 2017;Benito et al, 2019;Ghanim, 2019;Xiao et al, 2019), farmers being the biggest water user. Actions include installation of water-saving devices, leakage control, water re-use, water harvesting, implementation of indicators like non-revenue water (NRW), and the extension of economic incentives to users, such as increasing water price, and subsidies to water savers (Wang et al, 2015;Chang et al, 2016).…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Water Use Efficiency: A Review of Contextual and Behavioral Factors

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Water withdrawals around the world have increased almost twice as fast as the population during the last century. Higher than expected water demand is leading to water scarcity and causing rapid depletion of water tables around the world. One reason behind the higher than expected demand is the inefficient use of water. Inefficient use of water affects the well-being of society, the economic stability of countries, and environmental health. Indeed, water use efficiency (WUE) is one of the pillars of sustainable development goals (SDG 6.4.1). However, progress toward achieving WUE is slow, especially for many developing countries where the degradation of natural resources is critical, economic growth is slow, and there are few strong institutions to coordinate actions. One reason behind inefficient water use is human behavior. A variety of contextual and psychological factors underlie the behavior. The contextual factors include socioeconomic, technical, institutional, and environmental factors and the behavioral factors include factors associated with the perception of risk, attitudes, norms, etc. Yet, few studies consider an integrated view of these factors in shaping water use behavior. This paper consolidates contextual and behavioral factors which influence water use, studies the gaps in our understanding of human water behavior underlying WUE and highlights the need to comprehensive assess and consistently measure such factors and their relationships. Based on the gaps identified, it proposes a conceptual model that connects contextual and behavioral factors and represents potential cause-effect relationships as supported by various environmental behavior approaches and psychological theories. Based on the literature review of water use, and conservation behavior, environmental psychology, and water use models, this model proposes an institutional factor to assess the relationship between institutions and stakeholders, and study contextual factors linked not only for individual water users but also studying these factors for individuals of water supply organizations.

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Section: Socioeconomic Factorsmentioning

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Section: Socioeconomic Factorsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Technical Factorsmentioning

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Section: Introductionmentioning

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Water Use Efficiency: A Review of Contextual and Behavioral Factors

2021

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“…The provision of public services is a widely studied and analyzed topic in the scientific literature [1][2][3]. Among these, the water supply service is one of the most studied in the scientific literature due to its importance, even more so considering the growing concern that exists due to the incipient scarcity of drinking water worldwide [1][2][3][4][5][6][7]. These services, the vast majority of which are provided by local governments [8], play a particularly important role in the daily lives of all citizens, as they have a direct impact on their wellbeing and quality of life [9].…”

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Transparency and Digitalization in Water Services: Reality or Still a Dream?

Zafra-Gómez,

Garrido-Montañés,

López-Pérez

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Water

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The provision of public services, mostly by local governments, has been widely analyzed in the scientific literature. The relevance of these services has generated an incipient demand for information on the part of citizens, which makes it necessary for the bodies responsible for their provision to present adequate levels of transparency. In this context, digitalization is a crucial tool for providing information to citizens and, therefore, contributing to improving the levels of transparency of those organizations that provide public services. Among these, the drinking water supply service stands out, which is crucial for well-being and sustainable progress, and whose analysis is of vital importance, especially in countries such as Spain affected by factors such as climate change and urbanization. In this way, the aim of this paper is to analyze the degree of transparency of the companies providing water supply services in Spain, as well as their degree of digitalization. To this end, a relationship will be established between the Transparency Index of Public Enterprises (INDEP) and the Strategic Project for Economic Recovery and Transformation (PERTE), which measure the degree of transparency and digitalization, respectively. This relationship will be established for a sample of 59 companies responsible for water supply. The main results derived from this study show a wide margin for improvement on the part of the companies analyzed, both in terms of transparency and digitalization, as the vast majority of these companies show a medium–low degree of compliance in both aspects.

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Determinants of the efficiency of Spanish public broadcasting channels: A data envelopment analysis bootstrapping approach

Cifuentes‐Faura

2022

Manage Decis Econ

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The autonomous public mass media must strengthen the linguistic and cultural diversity of a region. It is questioned whether its financing and management model is appropriate in view of the economic problems it often faces. It has been studied the efficiency of 11 Spanish public broadcasting channels using data envelopment analysis to know which ones have a higher efficiency and to determine in what ways should the lower efficiency channels improve. Furthermore, via bootstrapping, it is determined if variables such as having an indigenous language or the population affect the efficiency of the channel.

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Empirical Evidence for Efficiency in Provision of Drinking Water

Cited by 18 publications

References 68 publications

Water Use Efficiency: A Review of Contextual and Behavioral Factors

Water Use Efficiency: A Review of Contextual and Behavioral Factors

Transparency and Digitalization in Water Services: Reality or Still a Dream?

Determinants of the efficiency of Spanish public broadcasting channels: A data envelopment analysis bootstrapping approach

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