Towards Urban Water Reform: A Discussion Paper

Contents

Preliminaries
Cover, Copyright, Foreword, Contents, Abbreviations and explanations, Glossary and Overview.

1 Setting the scene
1.1 Introduction
1.2 An overview of urban water systems
1.3 Past reform
1.4 Key issues

2 Objectives and their achievement
2.1 Introduction
2.2 Objectives for urban water
2.3 Urban water management in the ‘big dry’
2.4 Principles in augmenting urban water supplies

3 Pricing urban water
3.1 Introduction
3.2 Current arrangements
3.3 Improving administered pricing
3.4 Broader institutional and structural reform to improve pricing

4 Integrating rural and urban water resources
4.1 Introduction
4.2 Exploring alternative institutional models of integration
4.3 Facilitating efficient rural–urban water trades

5 New water supplies
5.1 Introduction
5.2 Facilitating efficient investment in new water supplies
5.3 Desalination case study

6 Institutional and structural reforms
6.1 Introduction
6.2 Further commercialisation of water utilities
6.3 Procurement, contracting and privatisation
6.4 Toward decentralised competition — unlocking the supply chain
6.5 Prospects for a decentralised market
6.6 Policies that distort urban water objectives
6.7 Implementation, transition and adjustment

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