This book reports on the findings of a study examining the role of small water providers in filling the service gaps left by city water utilities. Survey results show that from city to city, 20-50% of residents are customers in informal water markets.
| Title | Small piped water networks : helping local entrepeneurs to invest |
| Publication Type | Miscellaneous |
| Year of Publication | 2004 |
| Secondary Title | Water for all series / ADB |
| Volume | no. 13 |
| Pagination | 42 p. : 18 boxes, 13 fig., 15 tab. |
| Date Published | 2004-09-01 |
| ISBN Number | 9715615430 |
| Keywords | asia, case studies, investment, low-income communities, piped distribution, private sector, sdiasi, sdiman, small-scale activities, urban areas |
| Abstract | This book reports on the findings of a study examining the role of small water providers in filling the service gaps left by city water utilities. Survey results show that from city to city, 20-50% of residents are customers in informal water markets. The study examines small piped networks through case studies including their relationships with city hall, the city water utility, and the local banks. The case studies show that it is the poor who benefit most when local entrepreneurs invest risk capital and build and operate piped networks in unserved urban slums and low-income neighborhoods that have been failed by the city water utility. The study finds strongly in favor of small piped networks, as short- and mediumterm providers until the city water utility can expand services to the area. The book offers practical recommendations to city governments and utilities for getting local water network entrepreneurs to invest. ADB will join with two or three cities to test and refine the recommendations from the study during 2005-2006. |
| Notes | 34 ref. |
| Custom 1 | 202.8 |
