Region: Global
Country: Global / Non-Specific
Sector: Water and Sanitation
Keywords: PPPs by Sector *, Water & Sanitation PPPs **
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Document Summary:
Gridlines share emerging knowledge on public-private partnership and give an overview of a wide selection of projects from various regions of the world.
Document Details:
In the 1990s a few multinationals dominated the market for public-private partnership (PPP) contracts in water. Yet in recent year's water operators from developing countries have won most of the new PPP contracts for the management of water utilities in countries as diverse as Brazil, Cameroon, Chile, China, Colombia, India, Malaysia, and the Russian Federation. While the size of the market served by large foreign operators has remained stagnant since 2001, the population served by private operators from developing countries grew from 15 million to more than 70 million, or 40 percent of the market, by 2008. This big shift opens new perspectives on using PPPs as a tool to reform water utilities in the developing world.