… regulation and that unregulated water utilities will deteriorate without monitoring. Many
regulatory … systems over which state commissions exercise some degree of regulatory authority.2 …

… -owned water utility (ESSAP—Empresa de Servicios Sanitarios de Paraguay)5, and a
law that established a new legal framework for the sector and created a regulatory authority (…

… However, the study cases also reveal that water utilities are constrained by government
labor regulations, according to which several of them cannot fire staff when necessary. For …

… maximizing the efficiency of water utilities might be incompatible with … of water utility regulation
across the globe, its evolution, the current problems, and the main challenges. Regulation …

… is difficult to fully outline the range of regulatory authority for different types of regulation.
Suffice it to note that there is oversight by some authority, the water ministry, a national regulator, …

… water utility or by a privately owned water utility that has entered into a contract with the
municipality; and provisions that water bills of municipally owned water utilities … municipal utility to …

… for water utilities. It discusses present and future regulations, what they mean for water
utilities, … of the project, and discusses the future general regulatory environment facing utilities. …

… the performance of water utilities, as there are a number of jurisdictions in the US where
public and private water utilities operate under comparable regulatory environments. The …

… Other government regulations that influence water utility performance include tax rules, …
and safety regulations. It is important to note that not only do regulations constrain water utility …

… , r(e,θ)=1−C(e|θ), are observable, and are contractible variables for the regulatory authority.
But since θ is not observable, observing them is not enough to recover the level of effort that …