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Record Nr.

UNINA9910163909403321

Titolo

The regulation of the global water services market / / edited by Julien Chaisse ; foreword by Laurence Boisson De Chazournes [[electronic resource]]

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Cambridge : , : Cambridge University Press, , 2017

ISBN

1-316-73200-2

1-316-74358-6

1-316-73007-7

1-316-67844-X

1-316-74551-1

1-316-75323-9

1-316-74744-1

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (xvii, 425 pages) : digital, PDF file(s)

Disciplina

363.6/1

Soggetti

Water resources development - Economic aspects

Water resources development - Law and legislation

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Apr 2017).

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Sommario/riassunto

Drinking water and wastewater services must be provided to many sectors of a nation's economy, including its industrial, commercial, and residential sectors. This forms the scope of the water industry's activities and it explains why the privatisation of water sanitation and water services has become a huge market and a much-debated issue in a number of jurisdictions. Historically the water industry has been run as a public service which is owned by the local or national government, recent trends suggest that the role of the private sector is increasing. The growing economic interests concerning water and wastewater services are generating a tension with the recent recognition of the human right to water and sanitation. This tension between human right and economic rules is the focus of this book, which reviews all the international rules that form the regulation of global water services.