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  title info:
    title: Pricing Urban Water
    sub title: Evaluation of Economics in the Water Sector of Hyderabad and Varanasi (India)
  name:
    name part: Echternacht, Laura.
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: author.
  name:
    name part: SpringerLink (Online service)
  type of resource: text
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: gw
    date issued: 2014
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: electronic
    form: electronic resource
    reformatting quality: access
    form: remote
    extent: X, 100 p. 26 illus., 22 illus. in color. online resource.
  abstract: High population growth, informal settlements, and organizational and financial mismanagement represent major challenges for the water supply in many cities in developing countries. This book contributes to solving those problems by identifying systematic shortcomings and proposing solutions to improve the financial conditions in two representative cities: Hyderabad and Varanasi. Serious improvements are necessary for the further development of the water supply and sanitation networks in these areas. Pricing Urban Water offers a theoretical introduction to economics of the water sector, including the theory of water pricing and tariff systems, combined with detailed analyses of the water supply and sanitation infrastructure as well as of the municipal suppliers of Hyderabad and Varanasi. Introducing a method for estimating future water production costs in both cities serves as the basis for a tariff revision, which is put forward as one solution to improve the poor financial conditions both suppliers are in. Besides the revision of the tariff systems, some considerations on how to supply and charge urban poor and on the inclusion of private borewells in the tariffs are part of the discussion. Changes in both the organizational structure of the service providers and in the current delivery and use of the services are presented as further solutions to the problems in this sector.
  table of contents: From the Contents: Water pricing -- Water supply and sanitation service -- Examples of implemented water tariffs in different countries -- General information on water supply and sanitation in India -- Hyderabad.
  note: by Laura Echternacht.
  subject:
    topic: Water-supply
  subject:
    topic: Environmental management
  subject:
    topic: Sustainable development
  subject:
    topic: Development economics
  subject:
    topic: Economics
  subject:
    topic: Development Economics
  subject:
    topic: Water Policy/Water Governance/Water Management
  subject:
    topic: Sustainable Development
  subject:
    topic: Water Industry/Water Technologies
  classification: HD72-88
  classification: 338.9
  related item:
    title info:
      title: Springer eBooks
  related item:
    title info:
      title: SpringerBriefs in Water Science and Technology
  identifier: 9783319041902
  identifier: http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-04190-2
  record info:
    record creation date: 140121
    record change date: 20151204173437.0
    record identifier: 978-3-319-04190-2