A critical and insightful look at the past, present, and future state of water and wastewater services

In response to the worldwide water crisis foreseen by many experts, Reinventing Water and Wastewater Systems presents practical solutions for making drinking water more affordable and available, as well as strategies for improving water sanitation to satisfy the demands of a growing global population. Through extensive data and case histories, this book demonstrates the potential success of privatizing water delivery and wastewater treatment facilities. In addition, it provides examples of state-of-the-art techniques for achieving higher efficiencies in water infrastructure facilities through reengineering, improved technologies, and quality benchmarking.

Contributed chapters are provided by leading global engineers and economists from such companies as the World Bank, Stone and Weber Consultants, the Atlantis Water Fund, and the Anglian Water Company. Coverage by these experts includes exploring regulatory frameworks, financing the water and wastewater infrastructure, reinventing public sector operations, analyzing the past and future of the global water industry, and examining the restructuring operations in selected U.S. cities.

Reinventing Water and Wastewater Systems: Global Lessons for Improving Water Management is a constructive volume for civil engineers working in water and wastewater treatment, urban and regional planners, and environmental engineers, as well as government administrators overseeing infrastructure and water systems and financial institutions involved with underwriting major water improvement projects.

Contributors from utility companies, local governments, and the mysterious world of various Institutes and Groups discuss issues and impediments related to drinking and waste water primarily as capitalist enterprises. After an overview of private-sector participation in the US and around the world, they cover the regulatory framework, financing the water and wastewater infrastructure, reinventing public sector operations, restructuring operations in selected US cities, and topics from the past and future. Specific titles include water service reform in Latin America, the Manila concession as the largest water system privatization, and deregulating private water supplies as a policy option for developing countries.
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Reinventing Water and Wastewater Systems: Global Lessons for Improving Water Management is a constructive volume for civil engineers working in water and wastewater treatment, urban and regional planners, and environmental engineers, as well as government administrators overseeing infrastructure and water systems and financial institutions involved with underwriting major water improvement projects.

Potable water is becoming scarce around the world, while the safe disposal of contaminated wastewater is becoming less and less prevalent. This book offers practical, workable solutions to make drinking water more affordable and more available, and to offer the concomitant water sanitation that will be needed on an ever greater scale as the world's population increases. It presents an important group of strategies for re-thinking and re-planning how infrastructure systems are planned, owned, and financed.

PAUL SEIDENSTAT is Associate Professor of Economics at Temple University.

DAVID HAARMEYER is Associate Director with the private consulting firm of Cambridge Energy Research Associates.

SIMON HAKIM is Professor of Economics and Codirector of the Center for Competitive Government at Temple University.

An overview of private sector participation in the global and US water and wastewater sector / David Haarmeyer and Debra G. Coy — Comparative analysis of regulation : water and other network industries / Yogita U. Mumssen and Brian Williamson — Ten years of water service reform in Latin America : toward an Anglo-French model / Vivien Foster — The pursuit of efficiency through benchmarking : the experience of the water industry in England and Wales / Stephen Ramsey — The development of competition in the water and sewerage industries of England and Wales / George Day — Global water and wastewater project criteria : a rating agency perspective / Michael Wilkins and Jane Eddy — Water concession design and the poor / Kristin Komives — Development of the Mexican water sector / Edward Sondey and Neel A. Shah — Mexico's federal district water reform : lessons and experience / Lillian Saade Hazin — The largest water system privatization : the Manila concession / Mark Dumol and Paul Seidenstat — Government-owned public limited companies in the Dutch water sector / Klaas Schwartz and Maarten Blokland — Innovative contracting for new facilities : Seattle's use of design-build-operate for implementation of water treatment plants / Elizabeth S. Kelly, Scott Haskins, and Rodney Eng — The challenge and benefits of privatizing Wilmington's wastewater treatment plant : a case study / James H. Sills, Jr. — Houston's strategy to secure new water supply, infrastructure, and maintenance / Lee P. Brown — A new standard for a long-term lease and service agreement / Michael A. Traficante and Peter Alviti, Jr. — North Brunswick's model water and wastewater public-private contract / Paul J. Matacera and Frank J. Mangravite — Privatization of operation and maintenance of wastewater control facilities : city of West Haven, Connecticut / H. Richard Borer, Jr. — Phoenix water services reengineers to improve practices and save money / Skip Rimsza — London's private water supply, 1582-1902 / Nicola Tynan — Deregulated private water supply : a policy option for developing countries / Penelope J. Brook and Tyler Cowen — The future : structural change and competition in the UK water industry / Rebecca Reehal — Creating liquidity in an illiquid market : how the Internet can facilitate the development of efficient water markets / Patrick J. Meyers — Project financing of water desalination plants : a worldwide trend / James S. Harris — A public sector alternative for the new millennium / Michael J. Crean — Global lessons : options for improving water and wastewater systems / Paul Seidenstat.