What Price Water? User participation in paying for community-based water supply, with particular emphasis on piped systems
Updated - Thursday 28 June 2007
Catalogues different types of community financing systems and discusses what mechanisms for cost recovery are available, under what circumstances they can be applied and their advantages and disadvantages, with cases from the field. Pays special attention to introducing the options to the community and to organizational development at the local level to support the chosen revenue generating system.
Target audience: project staff with technical or social backgrounds involved in planning, implementation and operational management of piped community water supplies
Prepared within the framework of the IRC Public Standpost Water Supplies Project using funds provided by the Directorate-General for International Cooperation of the Netherlands government. Also available in French (OP 10-F)
- - Download:
- OP10-E.pdf (3.0 MB)
- - Series:
- Occasional Paper no. 10. v, 88 pages. 24 references. Illustrated.
- - Price:
- € 9.00
- - Order code:
- OP 10-E
