Muddying the water

Christopher Gasson argues that cost recovery tariffs are the best guarantee of transparency in the water sector.

This is the fourth year we have run a global water tariff survey, but probably the first time we have seen some really interesting movement.

The biggest increases came in eastern Europe and central Asia, where municipalities seem to be giving up the pretence that they can subsidise water in a meaningful way. I wouldn’t expect much of the ...

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