Water procurement time and its implications for household water demand—insights from a water diary study in five informal settlements of pune, India

H Zozmann, C Klassert, B Klauer, E Gawel - Water, 2022 - mdpi.com
… values to water procurement time. … procurement time reduces quantitative water demand
in a significant way. The households incurring the highest per-unit time cost consumed water

The use of wholesale market purchases by US electric utilities

JP Carvallo, SP Murphy, A Sanstad, PH Larsen - Energy Strategy Reviews, 2020 - Elsevier
… This paper presents an empirical analysis of procurement practices for US electric utilities
with an emphasis on wholesale market transactions. We employ a mixed-methods approach …

[PDF][PDF] Towards sustainable water services: Subsidiarity, multi-level governance and resilience for building viable water utilities

JJ Hukka, TS Katko - 2021 - trepo.tuni.fi
… We will also make diagnoses of sustainable water services and viable water utilities.
These diagnoses will be followed by a discussion part as well as by our conclusions and …

[HTML][HTML] Water utilities' improvement: The need for water and energy management techniques and skills

L Wilson, KN Lichinga, AB Kilindu, AA Masse - Water Cycle, 2021 - Elsevier
… in the water utilities and how to maintain a future water supply … , the supply of water from a
water-abundant area to a water-… Noted by one procurement staff during the discussion was …

Modelling the water supply service quality: a case study of the municipal corporation

S Kansara - International Journal of Productivity and …, 2020 - inderscienceonline.com
… service operations management, supply chain management, procurement and materials …
The services offered by the water supply department of the NMC fall under the general utilities. …

The politics of building effective water utilities in the Global South: A case of NWSC Uganda

B Bukenya - 2020 - papers.ssrn.com
… Although most public water utilities in developing countries perform poorly, some have
achieved remarkable turnarounds and now deliver effectively on their mandate. Current analyses …

The role of regulators in promoting the procurement of flexibility services within the electricity distribution system: A survey of seven leading countries

KL Anaya, MG Pollitt - Energies, 2021 - mdpi.com
… The responses suggest a collective interest in the procurement of flexibility services by
distribution utilities from distributed energy resources. New regulations, the adaptation of current …

Consumer ability and willingness to pay more for continuous municipal water supply in Chitungwiza

L Zvobgo - Sustainable Water Resources Management, 2021 - Springer
… Intermittent water supply has become a new challenge in many developing countries as
water utilities are implementing stern water rationing to compensate the shortages. In these …

Public-private partnerships in the water sector: A review

S Lima, A Brochado, RC Marques - Utilities Policy, 2021 - Elsevier
… , while the fifth was procurement and contract management, and the last was financial
packages and PPP applications. The cited authors highlight that the water sector is in the top three …

State of professional practice for water infrastructure project delivery

J Feghaly, M El Asmar, ST Ariaratnam - Practice Periodical on …, 2020 - ascelibrary.org
… method for APDM projects of their sample, followed by qualifications-only procurement (31%).
These differences may show that water utilities are now shifting their APDM procurement