EAN: 9783319041896

SPRINGERBRIEFS IN WATER SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY ...

High population growth  informal settlements  and organizational and financial mismanagement
represent major challenges for the water supply in many cities in developing countries. This
book contributes to solving those problems by identifying systematic shortcomings and proposing
solutions to improve the financial conditions in two representative cities: Hyderabad and
Varanasi. Serious improvements are necessary for the further development of the water supply
and sanitation networks in these areas. Pricing Urban Water offers a theoretical introduction
to economics of the water sector  including the theory of water pricing and tariff systems 
combined with detailed analyses of the water supply and sanitation infrastructure as well as of
the municipal suppliers of Hyderabad and Varanasi. Introducing a method for estimating future
water production costs in both cities serves as the basis for a tariff revision  which is put
forward as one solution to improve the poor financial conditions both suppliers are in. Besides
the revision of the tariff systems  some considerations on how to supply and charge urban poor
and on the inclusion of private borewells in the tariffs are part of the discussion. Changes in
both the organizational structure of the service providers and in the current delivery and use
of the services are presented as further solutions to the problems in this sector.

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