Productivity and efficiency in the water industry
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Industry structure
Industry structures in the water sector vary across the world – in the range of activities that individual businesses undertake, geographical size, the number and nature of customers they service, the extent of private sector involvement, the scope of competition (if any), the nature and extent of regulation, and the bodies upon whom responsibility for overseeing and/or implementing that regulation is placed.
In general, the range of activities that water businesses may undertake include: bulk
Part III
Research on productivity and efficiency in the water sector undertaken to date, and the methodologies utilised, has been diverse. Up until the 1990s the tendency for studies was to concentrate on the issues of the existence of economics of scale in the industry and the effects of public versus private ownership. This was mainly because the main issues at the time were the possible advantages that might be obtained from merging water suppliers into larger units and the existence in the United
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