Germany’s wake-up call

Municipal utilities are hoping that benchmarking will save them from reform. They are being optimistic.

Germany’s water and wastewater sector is busy collecting data, and lots of it. Back in 2002, the German parliament voted against liberalisation of the water sector and turned instead to structural modernisation to achieve greater efficiency – and in order to assess what needs modernising among about 7,000 water companies, it goes without saying that plenty of information is ...

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