… between the ownership and performance of municipal water utilities. There are a number of
… privately owned water utilities will out-perform comparable publicly funded utilities. These …

The fundamental lesson that emerges from this survey of regulating state-owned and municipal
water utilities in developing countries is that sector regulation has to be embedded in an …

… Evidence suggests that municipal water utility administrators in the western US price water
… decisions, and recovers the efficient water pricing policy function from counterfactual …

… between the ownership and performance of municipal water utilities. We first examine the …
that public water utilities perform worse than comparable private water utilities; and (2) …

… sector in Guanajuato underwent further reform as other municipalities opted to convert
their municipal water departments into statutory bodies, increasing the total to 39. …

… company (Epal, which supplies Lisbon), municipal companies [with private participation (…
utilities (municipality bodies with administrative and financial autonomy) and municipal services …

… pared the frontier of municipal water utilities with that of state water companies in our sample.
With respect to the pooled frontier the average rank of the municipal companies was 53, …

… Although this statement may sound alarmist and a water utility may take the stance of “we're
different,” the fact remains that the future prospects of additional rate increases hang in the …

… over the water utility. These four water utilities are fairly typical of the major forms of
organization under the council and mayor, under the water board, and under the utility board. …

… Indeed, municipal public utility management may call for greater skill and art. In this field, …
manage a municipal water utility should ascertain is the overall objective of the municipality and…