… water and waste water utilities … Water/sanitation utilities are usually vertically integrated
natural monopolies allowing for very little or no competition. For this reason, regulatory authorities …

… utilities efficiency and its management has become increasingly important in the last decades.
We focus on the distribution of water, … about some Spanish water utilities under different …

… Recent decisions have, on several occasions, required water utilities to obtain first additional
water supplies before undertaking to serve any new or additional subdivisions. A showing …

… water utility commissioners and local officials to consider regional approaches to provide better
and more affordable water … Utility Regulatory Commission made clear that a water utility's …

… to the need for rigorous water testing by a regulatory authority and the imposition of effective
… But for the same reason, public water utilities may not be creditworthy and private operators …

… Regulatory authorities, responsible both for price setting and performance monitoring, were
created. In this context, many benchmarking projects appeared at national or international …

… the mainland there is a regulatory agency (ERSAR – Regulatory Authority for the Water and
Waste) which, according to its statutes, is endowed with important regulatory functions for all …

… , the so-called Sindacats intercommunaux), while no independent regulatory authority
charged with controlling water tariffs has been instituted on either the national or the local level. …

… Transparency in the regulation of water utilities is essential in order to ensure … regulatory
arrangements in the water utilities sectors in three jurisdictions to determine which regulatory …

… regulators may find occasion to consider the implications of regionalization in the context
of developing economic regulatory policies for the regulated water sector. This bibliography …