Water sector reform policy of India: Experiences from case studies in Maharashtra

Brunner, Norbert; Lele, Ashwini; Starkl, Markus; Grassini, Laura

doi:10.1016/j.jpolmod.2010.04.001

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“…Nevertheless, one can find some encouraging reports of reforms in developing countries (Brocklehurst andJanssens, 2004 andBrunner et al, 2010). We believe that this type of "reality check" is also crucial for developed countries that carried out massive reforms in the water sector.…”

Section: Performance Of Water Utilities and Cross-national Comparisonsmentioning

confidence: 85%

Measuring the efficiency of water utilities: a cross-national comparison between Portugal and Italy

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Abstract:All over the world, governments are compelling water utilities to improve their efficiency and productivity through reforms and tougher regulatory tools. Despite the different strategies and approaches, the goals remain the same: to make the whole sector more efficient, to curb the profits and the 'quiet life' of water utilities and to pass the productivity gains to customers through reduced prices or better environmental protection and quality of service. The water sector in Portugal and Italy underwent deep reforms in the 1990s, in pursuit of higher levels of performance. Therefore, there is added interest to measure the performance of water utilities in these two Mediterranean countries. We assess their performance using composite (global) indicators on a sample of 88 water utilities for the year 2007. While we compare the performance of the two countries in this sector we also try to identify the impact of the ownership structure on efficiency. Finally, this paper discusses the benchmarking results of our research and draws some policy implications.

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Section: Performance Of Water Utilities and Cross-national Comparisonsmentioning

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Measuring the efficiency of water utilities: a cross-national comparison between Portugal and Italy

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“…The first was the inadequacy or absence of consultation with the affected community [30,41,45,49,56,60,78,79,[81][82][83][84]94,95,98,99,103,110,115,120,122]. The second was a failure to adequately involve the community in the policy process [32,36,57,59,65,73,77,98,104,123]. The third was community opposition to environmentally sustainable policies/actions [82,92,93].…”

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Environmental Sustainability: A Case of Policy Implementation Failure?

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For a generation, governments around the world have been committed to sustainable development as a policy goal. This has been supported by an array of new policies ranging from international agreements, to national strategies, environmental laws at many levels of government, regional programs, and local plans. Despite these efforts, decades of scientific monitoring indicate that the world is no closer to environmental sustainability and in many respects the situation is getting worse. This paper argues that a significant contributing factor to this situation is policy implementation failure. A systematic review of the literature reveals that the failure to achieve the intended outcomes of environmental policies is due to economic, political and communication factors. Conflict between the objectives of environmental policies and those focused on economic development, a lack of incentives to implement environmental policies, and a failure to communicate objectives to key stakeholders are all key factors that contribute to the inability to attain environmental sustainability.

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“…However, also poor communities (though not all of their members) can be expected to contribute to the running costs. Indian funding guidelines reflect this; typically 90%-95% capital costs of rural water supply infrastructure are funded and users contribute the remainder and running costs [149].…”

Section: India: Hrw As An Implied Fundamental Rightmentioning

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“…• N denotes poor and therefore potentially inefficient users. They may be too poor to afford the infrastructure and therefore be non-compliant, leading to losses of funds by shortened lifetime, stranded investments, or corruption [185]; e.g., communities asking contractors to charge higher costs from the funding institutions and share the gain with them [149].…”

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“…Clearly, goal 3 by definition fulfills the HRW-obligation of "prioritizing essential levels of access to the most marginalized" [197]. The policies of the HRW-states India and South Africa apparently follow this goal: In India successive government programs increased management support [149]; this is an indication for the application of goal 3. In South Africa, the provision of free basic water supports the poor and user charges for excess consumption ensure rational use of water.…”

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The Human Right to Water in Law and Implementation

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Recent concerns about alleged insufficient water provision to the poor in Detroit, USA, has put the Human Right to Water (HRW) into the international discussion. The paper asks: "To what extent did international human rights treaties make HRW judiciable?" and "How did government policies implement it?" In a crosscountry comparison of performance indicators, merely accepting HRW has not been helpful in promoting affordable access to potable water or sanitation facilities close to the home, amongst the reasons being deficiencies in water-governance. Case-law confirmed that with respect to affordable access HRW obliges governments to a "progressive realization" only, also in countries accepting HRW (India, South Africa). The paper focuses on the resulting positive state obligation to establish funding programs for better water and sanitation services and analyzes funding policies by a mathematical model of policy goals. It identifies two viable goals namely the successful support for the poor, as in developing countries, and the most economic use of public funds, as in industrialized countries. Other goals conceivable for the model have been tried in the past and failed.

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Water sector reform policy of India: Experiences from case studies in Maharashtra

Cited by 21 publications

References 13 publications

Measuring the efficiency of water utilities: a cross-national comparison between Portugal and Italy

Measuring the efficiency of water utilities: a cross-national comparison between Portugal and Italy

Environmental Sustainability: A Case of Policy Implementation Failure?

The Human Right to Water in Law and Implementation

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