Global trends in cost recovery from water tariffs - CHART

This month’s chart comes again from the World Bank’s IBNET database of utility performance indicators.

It shows the proportion of the 2,000 or so utilities (mainly in developing countries) in the database which reach different levels of cost recovery through their tariffs. The most obvious thing it shows is how exposed the sector has been to rising energy prices. Although these rose steadily between 2004 and 2006, the effects of the rise were offset ...

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