The failure of water utilities privatization: Synthesis of evidence, analysis and implications

Araral, Eduardo

doi:10.1016/j.polsoc.2008.10.006

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“…In many countries, the entrance of private actors in the water supply industry has failed to achieve the expected goals of greater efficiency and, for this reason, the involvement of the private sector in the provision of the service has been subject to increasing criticism. The large number of empirical studies conducted from across the US, Europe and developing countries that used different methodologies such as econometric or multiple case studies, provided results that are often ambiguous and contradictory, even showing that privatization does not necessarily provide better cost service delivery [10,11]. Kirkpatrik and Parker [12] even found that, in some cases the private sector participation in the water provision industry caused the cancellation of some services or an increase of water tariffs to the detriment of some consumer groups.…”

Section: Private Vs Public Ownership And/or Management Of Water Provmentioning

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Are Public-Private Partnerships a Source of Greater Efficiency in Water Supply? Results of a Non-Parametric Performance Analysis Relating to the Italian Industry

Storto

2013

Water

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This article reports the outcome of a performance study of the water service provision industry in Italy. The study evaluates the efficiency of 21 "private or public-private" equity and 32 "public" equity water service operators and investigates controlling factors. In particular, the influence that the operator typology and service management nature -private vs. public -has on efficiency is assessed. The study employed a two-stage Data Envelopment Analysis methodology. In the first stage, the operational efficiency of water supply operators is calculated by implementing a conventional BCC DEA model, that uses both physical infrastructure and financial input and output variables to explore economies of scale. In the second stage, bootstrapped DEA and Tobit regression are performed to estimate the influence that a number of environmental factors have on water supplier efficiency. The results show that the integrated water provision industry in Italy is characterized by operational inefficiencies of service operators, and scale and agglomeration economies may have a not negligible effect on efficiency. In addition, the operator typology and its geographical location affect efficiency.

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Section: Private Vs Public Ownership And/or Management Of Water Provmentioning

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Are Public-Private Partnerships a Source of Greater Efficiency in Water Supply? Results of a Non-Parametric Performance Analysis Relating to the Italian Industry

Storto

2013

Water

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“…Theories of government failure have been used to explain the rather poor performance of public water utilities and irrigation agencies in many developing countries, for instance Araral (2008Araral ( , 2009). …”

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Water Governance 2.0: A Review and Second Generation Research Agenda

Araral

Wang

2013

Water Resour Manage

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Water scholars and practitioners generally agree that improving water governance is the key to addressing water insecurity in developing countries. We review the literature on water governance and argue for a second-generation research agenda, which pays more attention to the study of incentive structures, is multi and inter-disciplinary in orientation and with clear policy implications. We then illustrate how theories drawn from public economics, new institutional economics, political economy and public administration can help diagnose the challenges of integrated water resources management, improving efficiency of water utilities, privatization of utilities and public-private partnerships, water pricing reforms, virtual waters/water trading, among others. We conclude that these tools can help advance the second-generation research agenda on water governance.

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“…However, in the past water used to be referred as a free good, by which this has been replaced by new perspective that water can be treated either as social good or economic commodity (Randall, 1981;Milliman, 1959;Saleth and Dinar, 2005). First those who hold the view that water is a social good have looked into several factors including its necessity to life and perquisite of society social development (Araral, 2009;Brajer and Martin, 1990) and its association with agrarian and industrial revolution (Rose, 1990). While those who hold the view that water can be considered as an economic commodity stem from the fact that water is becoming scarce and its demand is increasing.…”

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“… Fairness (equity) by which to distribute water among shareholders (Easter et al, 1999, Dietz, 2003)  Efficiency to the extent of how to utilize water productively (Araral, 2009, Bjornlund, 2003.…”

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Water Institutional Arrangements of FalajAl Daris in the Sultanate of Oman

Al-Marshoudi

2018

Int J Soc Sci Mgt

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Oman, which is located on the Southern East of Arabian Peninsula, classified as holding a semi-arid climate with an average annual rainfall of 100 mm. Therefore, agricultural production in Oman is fully dependent in irrigation. More than one third is supplied by the ancient aflaj (sing. Falaj), which provide 680 x 10 6 m 3 of water per year and irrigate of an area of 26,500 ha. There is two commonly known definition of the aflaj; the locally defined from the classic Arabic root as to divide the water among its shareholders. In addition, the modern technical definition as trenches and tunnels, which are dug in the ground, to convey the accumulated rainfall water table to the irrigated area in the villages. This study explore some of the existing institutional arrangements found within Falajdaris, at the waliyat (city) of Nizwalocated in the Dakhillya governmental, Sultanate of Oman. This study uses mainly face-To-face interviews with local administrative falaj agents to explore and discuss the most operated mechanized of the institutional arrangements. The study concluded that there is strong relationship between FalajDaris institutional arrangements development and physical water variability.

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The failure of water utilities privatization: Synthesis of evidence, analysis and implications

Cited by 65 publications

References 4 publications

Are Public-Private Partnerships a Source of Greater Efficiency in Water Supply? Results of a Non-Parametric Performance Analysis Relating to the Italian Industry

Are Public-Private Partnerships a Source of Greater Efficiency in Water Supply? Results of a Non-Parametric Performance Analysis Relating to the Italian Industry

Water Governance 2.0: A Review and Second Generation Research Agenda

Water Institutional Arrangements of FalajAl Daris in the Sultanate of Oman

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