… to be included to explain firm performance (in a regression model statistical tests can … water
quality or population density in a model of water utility costs). 7.3 Ownership and performance…

… analysis of Italian water utility companies to determine whether their performance was related
… annual financial statements of 80 Italian water utility companies between 2004 and 2008. It …

… In other words, while the mean and distribution of efficiency scores in both evaluations of
performance are statistically different, our water utilities do not seem to rank differently when …

… We hope that this publication will add information to the debate on how to most efficiently
and effectively increase access to affordable water and sanitation services in the cities of …

… Moreover, the results also have implications for urban domestic water pricing. We find that
most water utilities are operating under decreasing returns to scale (DRS), implying that water …

… the relative performance of Jordan’s water utilities for water … evaluate the utilities’ efficiency
and to investigate the utilities’ … the non-controllable factors on utilities’ inefficiencies where the …

… from 99 water utilities (161 utilities were rejected). The water utilities were then evaluated
according to the set of coherent criteria. The performances of our sample of water utilities were …

… professional behavior, the majority of the water utilities have institutionalized performance
reviews as the basic criteria for salary determination and promotion. Such systems provide …

… to use partial indicators to assess the performance of a water utility, or to compare it with
another utility can be drawn from our Queensland Water Service Provider data set (FY2014–…

… A partial performance is commonly measured by … of water utility performance using multiple
indicators. The current paper is based on an original conceptual vision of the water utility as …