GLOBAL: Improving Water Utility Efficiency Through Technological Innovation
Many water utilities all over the world – particularly in developing countries – are invariably in a difficult financial situation which hinders private participation and financing. On the one hand they are a monopoly having a growing and largely unsatisfied demand for its product which should give a positive return; on the other the quality of service is often poor, the supply is invariably interrupted for a number of hours per day, not all the water consumed by the customers generates revenue and they are over-staffed – all of which requires investment to resolve. Therefore, while the business potential is clearly enormous, utilities lack the financial strength to attract the necessary investment to realize it. | |||||