Experience with private sector participation in Grenoble, France, and lessons on strengthening public water operations

Lobina, Emanuele; Hall, David G.

doi:10.1016/j.jup.2007.01.004

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“…see the examples in EC (2004b) for mixed companies in the water and waste sectors in Bulgaria, Hungary, Ireland, Germany and the UK. This tendency is also observed in France (Lobina and Hall, 2007), Italy (Marra, 2007) and Spain (Bel and Fageda, 2010).…”

Section: Delivering Infrastructure In the Waste Sectorsupporting

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The Hurdles of Local Governments with Ppp Contracts in the Waste Sector

Cruz

Simões

Marques

2013

Environ Plann C Gov Policy

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Abstract:This paper identifies a number of the theoretical principles that apply to PPP contracts, introducing new case studies and policy discussions relevant for Europe and elsewhere.It discusses to what extent these contracts can and should be applied in the waste sector and performs a comparison between the purely contractual and the institutionalised models of PPP arrangements. We analyse four case studies in the 'wholesale' waste market in Portugal and examine the implementation and degree of success of these partnerships in the field. It seems that public authorities are failing to secure an adequate level of protection of the public interest. Drawing on the empirical evidence, we present some guidelines that can lead to better regulatory contracts for waste services.

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Section: Delivering Infrastructure In the Waste Sectorsupporting

confidence: 57%

The Hurdles of Local Governments with Ppp Contracts in the Waste Sector

Cruz

Simões

Marques

2013

Environ Plann C Gov Policy

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“…These opportunities are for the adoption by public service providers of institutional and operational policies consistent with the communitarian paradigm. For example, remunicipalisation has led to the introduction of advanced forms of public participation in decision making -with civil society representatives sitting on the Board of Directors of the new public water operators -both in Grenoble (Lobina and Hall, 2007a) and Paris, France. In Paris, efficiency savings obtained after remunicipalisation allowed the new public enterprise to reduce tariffs, increase financial contributions to poor households, launch a water saving campaign, and refrain from cutting off water supply in squats (Sinaï, 2013;Pigeon, 2012).…”

Section: The Emergence Of Remunicipalisation As a New Form Of Water Smentioning

confidence: 99%

“…In this sense, the implications of a 2014 decision by Germany's Federal Cartel Authority to impose a 17% price reduction and force BWB to pay EURO 254 million back to consumers 1 remain to be seen. On the other hand, the remunicipalised BWB has rejected calls for introducing advanced forms of public participation and has established a consultative consumer council 2 much in line with the practice of private water operators (Lobina and Hall, 2007a). As the remunicipalisation process consolidates, these tensions between competing paradigms appear unlikely to be solved in the near future.…”

Section: Water Remunicipalisation In Berlin Germanymentioning

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Water Remunicipalisation: Between Pendulum Swings and Paradigm Advocacy

Lobina

2016

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This chapter considers whether remunicipalisation -the return of water services to public ownership and management following the termination of private operating contracts -has a role to play in the future of the urban water sector. It does so by looking at the process of remunicipalisation in Berlin, Germany and Buenos Aires, Argentina. Attention is paid to the interplay of: 1) pendulum swings between competing paradigms of water service management; 2) the paradigm advocacy resulting in the dominance and emergence of paradigms at local level; and, 3) the conceptual tensions between communitarian and privatist paradigms of urban water management.In both cases, the rigidity of the privatist paradigm has led to the emergence of the communitarian paradigm. Two different processes of remunicipalisation are observed: explicit paradigm advocacy in Berlin, and tacit paradigm advocacy in Buenos Aires. In neither case has the passage from private to public ownership automatically led to the dominance of the communitarian paradigm. Indeed, the causal relationship between remunicipalisation and progressive change is not one of necessity but rather of possibility. Nonetheless, the emergence of water remunicipalisation as a global trend in the last 15 years has profoundly reconfigured institutional trajectories in the urban water sector. The dominance of the privatist paradigm is now challenged in the global North and South and will continue to be in future. This is due to persistent demands by communities for water to be treated as a social good, and the shortcomings of water privatisation as a community development tool.

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“…Proposed solutions to lack of potable water include water recycling and reuse (Pereira, Oweis, & Zairi, 2002), and increased irrigation efciency (Postel, 1998). Others have suggested neoliberal, market-based, and demand-driven policies such as privatization (Fuest & Haffner, 2007;Lobina & Hall, 2007). This paper focuses on the neoliberal water policies that seeks solutions in the market ideology, and privatizes the supply of potable water at different scales.…”

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“…Whiles some maintain that it can help address the global water crisis and advance the achievement of the water-related Millenium Development Goals, others argue that with adequate governmental support, the public sector can manage water better than private multinational companies (Lobina and Hall 2007). With the growing gap between water demand and supply, different forms of water privatization, especially in the developing world, is expected to grow.…”

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Perceptions of Nongovernmental Organization (NGO) Staff about Water Privatization in Developing Countries

Adams

Halvorsen²

2014

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Almost a billion people globally lack access to potable water. In the early 1990's, attempts to improve potable water access in the global south included a massive push for water services privatization, often involving the transfer of public water services to private companies. Critics of water privatization claim it rarely improves access to water, and in most cases, unfairly affect poor people. Proponents on the other hand argue that it is necessary for efcient management and capital investment in the water sector. Although development NGOs play an important role in developing country water provision, hardly any studies have sought to understand their perceptions about the potential role of water privatization towards improving access to potable water in developing countries. We interviewed the key staff among 28 international and national NGO staff about water privatization, its opportunities and constraints. Their perceptions were mixed. While most criticized water privatization as increasing water costs to the poor, some noted that privatization is necessary for improving water access through increased capital investment. We present the ndings and discuss larger implications for water policies and reforms in developing countries.

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Experience with private sector participation in Grenoble, France, and lessons on strengthening public water operations

Cited by 31 publications

References 5 publications

The Hurdles of Local Governments with Ppp Contracts in the Waste Sector

The Hurdles of Local Governments with Ppp Contracts in the Waste Sector

Water Remunicipalisation: Between Pendulum Swings and Paradigm Advocacy

Perceptions of Nongovernmental Organization (NGO) Staff about Water Privatization in Developing Countries

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