Independent water suppliers SSIPs

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Independent water suppliersSSIPs
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Where Im coming from -

• World Bank Searching for a paradigm.
• Community work in slums - Searching for service

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Searching for a Paradigm Water Service
Providers should

• Optimize Public Expenditure/Public Burden
• Optimize Engineering Design
• Follow Business Model to Optimize
  Earnings/Efficiency

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Searching for a Paradigm- Facts/Myths

• Water supply has always been a public service
  (water is a public good)
• The Poor cannot pay for water without subsidies
• Water and sanitation companies are sustainable
  only if investment costs are covered by
  government (subsidized)
• (Official) private operators are more efficient
  than public sector operators
• But unofficial private operators gouge the poor
• Alternative technologies work on a small scale
  but not are inferior in the long run

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Searching for a Paradigm - Solutions

• The National Public Water Company
• The Municipal Water Company
• The National Ministry to regulate and to finance
  the Municipal Water Company
• The Private Water Company and the National
  Regulator
• The Optimal Efficiency Water Company

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Searching for Service Alternatives in Reality

• The Community managed/based Company
• The Cooperative
• The (unofficial) Private Sector The Independent
  water providers (truckers, carters, tanks,
  private wells, private aqueducts)

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Independent water providersSSIPs - supply

• 25 of urban Latin America with water
• 50 of urban Latin America with Sanitation
• 50 of urban Africa with water
• 75 of urban Africa with Sanitation

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Independent water suppliersSSIPs

• The Aguateros of Paraguay
• 1960 - 2000

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Searching for Service

• What happened to the Aguateros ?
• No subsidy costs lower than official - no one
  without water
• Didnt fit the paradigm.. Official privatization
  wouldnt work
• Struggling for survival right now

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Concluding Water is a complicated issue

• Searching for a paradigm.
• Keep in mind
• Searching for service
• Seeing what works
• No model is universal, or permanent