Publications

Reclaiming Public Services is vital reading for anyone interested in the future of local, democratic services like energy, water and health care. This is an in-depth world tour of new initiatives in p...

This paper demonstrates that much of the benchmarking that takes place in the water sector today focuses on financial and technical performance, making it difficult for water operators to pursue broad...

Much of the priority setting in Water Operators’ Partnerships (WOPs) has been driven by benchmarking criteria, sidelining broader social goals in the process. We present the concept of ‘social efficie...

Governments around the world are increasingly turning to the use of stand-alone, state-owned utilities to deliver core services such as water and electricity. This article reviews the history of such...