The Possibilities for Improving Energy Efficiency at Water Utility Sector

Improving Water Utility Performance Through Local Private Sector Participation

Strategic Considerations for Improving Water Sector Performance

In a series of articles on "best practices" of independent regulatory commissions (IRCs), Sanford Berg and Lynne Holt have noted the ways regulatory processes and policies either promote or deter investments in water and sanitation utility systems. In this article, the authors describe the constellation of factors affecting infrastructure investments and water utility operations. IRCs exercise ...

Improving Public Sector Efficiency: Challenges and Opportunities

This article examines key institutional drivers that may contribute to improving public sector efficiency and focuses on one of them in more detail: performance information and its role and use in the budget process (" performance budgeting ").

Efficiency of superabsorbents in improving water productivity

Agricultural residues and various other materials are currently being used as additives to improve the physical and chemical properties of soil. Iran is located in an arid and semiarid region, so using strategies to reduce water use will reduce the problem water scarcity. The use of superabsorbent to increase water uptake and retention is one of the solutions that have been applied to improve w...

Deregulation, Governance Structures, and Efficiency: the U.s. Electric Utility Sector

The business strategy literature offers apparently opposite views of the ability of vertical integration to cope with the uncertainty related to changing regulatory environments. In this paper, we analyze how the process of retail deregulation affects the comparative efficiency of governance structures, which range on a continuum from fully vertically integrated structures to market transaction...