Private Sector and Water Pricing in Efficient Urban Water Management

Cecilia Tortajada is the President of the Third World Centre for Water Management, Mexico. Francisco González-Gómez is Professor at the Department of Applied Economics, Faculty of Economics and Business, and Researcher at the Institute of Water Research, University of Granada, Spain. Asit K. Biswas is a Distinguished Visiting Professor at the Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy, Singapore.Miguel A. García-Rubio is Associate Professor at the Department of Applied Economics and Business, Faculty of Economics, and Researcher at the Institute of Water Research, University of Granada, Spain.

• Foreword Esteban de las Heras Balbás 1. Introduction Cecilia Tortajada, Francisco González-Gómez, Asit K. Biswas and Miguel A. García-Rubio 2. Policy Brief: The urban water challenge Michael Rouse 3. Enhancing the performance of water prices and tariff structures in achieving socially desirable outcomes Dennis Wichelns 4. A global survey of urban water tariffs: are they sustainable, efficient and fair? David Zetland and Christopher Gasson 5. Glas Cymru: lessons from nine years as a not-for-profit public - private partnership David Lloyd Owen 6. A critical examination of models and projections of demand in water utility resource planning in England and Wales Gareth Walker 7. The dynamics of privatization and regulation of water services: a comparative study of two Spanish regions Germà Bel, Francisco González-Gómez and Andrés J. Picazo-Tadeo 8. Public choice of urban water service management: a multi-criteria approach Alberto Ruiz-Villaverde, Francisco González-Gómez and Andrés J. Picazo-Tadeo 9. Adopting versus adapting: adoption of water-saving technology versus water conservation habits in Spain Roberto Martínez-Espiñeira and María Á. García-Valiñas 10. Assessing the impact of price and non-price policies on residential water demand: a case study in Wisconsin Arnaud Reynaud 11. Water demand management: review of literature and comparison in South-East Asia Eduardo Araral and Yahua Wang 12. Water service quality in Tanzania: access and management María Á. García-Valiñas and Josepa Miquel-Florensa 13. State-of-the-art review: designing urban water tariffs to recover costs and promote wise use Sonia Ferdous Hoque and Dennis Wichelns