Countries emerging from a devastating conflict need to rapidly restore access to basic water and sanitation services for their population. While donors usually stand ready with generous reconstruction packages, the conflict may have left local institutions ill equipped to make good use of those resources. The traditional solution, involving technical assistance delivered by international consultants, has often proved disappointing. An alternative is to bring in a professional operator for a few years through a management contract.

Thanks to a corporatization process spanning two decades, Burkina Faso's national water and sanitation utility ranks among the few well-managed public water utilities in Sub-Saharan Africa. Key to its success has been the government's unceasing commitment to reform, which included the successful implementation of an innovative performance-based service contract with an international operator from 2001 to 2006.

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.

The Olmos Tinajones Special Project (PEOT) is responsible for the operation and maintenance of the Tinajones Major System that supplies water for irrigation of more than 87 thousand hectares in the Chancay Lambayeque valley, as well as the supervision of the concession of the transfer infrastructure.

WICER is an initiative by the World Bank’s Global Water Practice to help embrace and implement circular and resilience principles in the water sector around the world.

This handbook takes a practical approach in guiding its target readers, which comprise policy makers, governments and government agencies, private sector actors, and development institution partners, on how to deliver effective design and operation strategies, combined with financing models, to implement and sustainably expand use of irrigation.

This guide focuses on small-town wastewater treatment, starting with key concepts for decision-makers. It presents a five-step approach for selecting appropriate technologies, supported by case studies from three regions. The guide also covers external factors influencing technology choice and specific technology details.

Ofwat's primary role is to regulate the water and sewerage companies in England and Wales.

This book, a well-documented collection of case studies, is an attempt to examine the design, implementation and impact of reforms that introduced market forces in the public hospital sector; and tries to answer three questions: a) what problems did this type of reform try to address; b) what are the core elements of their design, implementation, and evaluation; and c) is there any evidence that this type of reform is successful in addressing problems for which they were intended?

The objective of the credit assessment is to provide borrowers and lenders with an overview of the creditworthiness of WSPs to support access to local currency finance from the domestic financial market.