Financing Water Supply and Sanitation Investments
Aldo Baietti; Paolo Curiel
This paper examines the applicability of conventional formulas that have been widely used in the water supply and sanitation sector to determine revenue requirements for average tariffs. It discusses the impact of capitalization issues on revenue requirements, particularly ...

Independent Water Entrepreneurs in Latin America - The Other Private Sector in Water Services
Tova Maria Solo
In the 1990’s, private participation in water services made the headlines again as governments, frustrated with the poor service and financial performance of their public-sector tilities, opted to bring in private operators, generally under long-term concession contracts ...

Innovative Contracts, Sound Relationships Urban Water Sector Reform in Senegal
Clarissa Brocklehurst ; Jan G. Janssens
The Innovative Contracts, Sound Relationships: Urban Water Sector Reform paper is the first in the new Water Supply and Sanitation Sector Board Discussion Paper Series. The publication series targets cutting-edge water supply and sanitation practices, and offers an opportunity ...

Private participation in water toward a new generation of projects
Philippe Marin ; Ada Karina Izaguirre
In the water sector of developing countries the investment boom of the late 1990s has been followed by declining investment flows and the cancellation or distress of several high-profile projects. Enthusiasm has been replaced by doubts. But recent ata paint a more nuanced ...

Private water projects
Ada Karina Izaguirre ; Catherine Hunt
Drawing on the World Bank’s Private Participation in Infrastructure Project Database, this Note reviews developments in the water and sewerage sector of developing countries in 2004 and changes in private participation in the sector since 2001. Data for 2004 show that total ...

Using management and lease-affermage contracts for water supply
Klas Ringskog; Mary Ellen Hammond; Alain Locussol
As governments in developing countries seek to expand access to water supply nd improve the quality of service, they are considering a range of ptions for public-private artnerships. Yet proposals to involve the private sector have often met with concerns—about tariff ...

Water Supply And Sanitation: Bridging The Gap Between Infrastructure and Service
Midori Makino; Alain R. Locussol; Smita Misra; Catherine Hunt; Vahid Alavian
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Why do governments and firms sign private sector participation deals
Olivia Jensen; Frédéric Blanc-Brude
This paper uses a new dataset, “WATSAN,” of Private Sector Participation (PSP) projects for water and sanitation in developing countries to examine the determinants of the umber of projects signed per country etween 1990 and 2004. The new dataset improves on existing sources ...