Author: Publisher:
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Category : Privatization
Languages : en
Pages : 44
Book Description
Response to Congress on Privatization of Wastewater Facilities
Author: Response to Congress on Use of Decentralized Wastewater Treatment Systems
Author: United States. Environmental Protection Agency. Office of Wastewater ManagementPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Sewage
Languages : en
Pages : 108
Book Description
Privatization of Water Services in the United States
Author: National Research CouncilPublisher: National Academies Press
ISBN: 0309170761
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 158
Book Description
In the quest to reduce costs and improve the efficiency of water and wastewater services, many communities in the United States are exploring the potential advantages of privatization of those services. Unlike other utility services, local governments have generally assumed responsibility for providing water services. Privatization of such services can include the outright sale of system assets, or various forms of public-private partnershipsâ€"from the simple provision of supplies and services, to private design construction and operation of treatment plants and distribution systems. Many factors are contributing to the growing interest in the privatization of water services. Higher operating costs, more stringent federal water quality and waste effluent standards, greater customer demands for quality and reliability, and an aging water delivery and wastewater collection and treatment infrastructure are all challenging municipalities that may be short of funds or technical capabilities. For municipalities with limited capacities to meet these challenges, privatization can be a viable alternative. Privatization of Water Services evaluates the fiscal and policy implications of privatization, scenarios in which privatization works best, and the efficiencies that may be gained by contracting with private water utilities.
Privatization in Practice
Author: Joaquin Jay Gonzalez IIIPublisher: McFarland
ISBN: 078647677X
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 249
Book Description
Cost efficiency was the initial goal of privatization--achieved in many cases but not consistently. Public services provided by the private sector were cheap in the beginning but became increasingly expensive, especially to low-income citizens. The lessons learned from early successes and failures gave birth to a new goal--effectiveness of services, as measured by accountable results. Government officials are not looking just for proven budget savings; they must also be concerned with the quality of public services and ultimately the happiness of citizens and communities. In its updated second edition, this collection of essays explores the good and the bad sides of privatization. Instructors considering this book for use in a course may request an examination copy here.
EPA National Publications Catalog
Author: United States. Environmental Protection AgencyPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Catalogs, Publishers'
Languages : en
Pages : 222
Book Description
Hybrid Nature
Author: Daniel SchneiderPublisher: MIT Press
ISBN: 0262016443
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 371
Book Description
A history of of the industrial ecosystem that focuses on the biological sewage treatment plant as an early example. Biological sewage treatment, like electricity, power generation, telephones, and mass transit, has been a key technology and a major part of the urban infrastructure since the late nineteenth century. But sewage treatment plants are not only a ubiquitous component of the modern city, they are also ecosystems -- a hybrid variety that incorporates elements of both nature and industry and embodies multiple contradictions. In Hybrid Nature, Daniel Schneider offers an environmental history of the biological sewage treatment plant in the United States and England, viewing it as an early and influential example of an industrial ecosystem. The sewage treatment plant relies on microorganisms and other plants and animals but differs from a natural ecosystem in the extent of human intervention in its creation and management. Schneider explores the relationship between society and nature in the industrial ecosystem and the contradictions that define it: the naturalization of industry versus the industrialization of nature; the public interest versus private (patented) technology; engineers versus bacterial and human labor; and purification versus profits in the marketing of sewage fertilizer. Schneider also describes biotechnology's direct connections to the history of sewage treatment, and how genetic engineering is extending the reaches of the industrial ecosystem to such "natural" ecosystems as oceans, rivers, and forests. In a conclusion that shows how industrial ecosystems continue to evolve, Schneider discusses John Todd's Living Machine, a natural purification method of sewage treatment, as the embodiment of the contradictions of the industrial ecosystem.
Departments of Veterans Affairs and Housing and Urban Development, and Independent Agencies Appropriations for 1998: Testimony of members of Congress and other interested individuals and organizations
Author: United States. Congress. House. Committee on Appropriations. Subcommittee on VA, HUD, and Independent AgenciesPublisher:
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Category : Government publications
Languages : en
Pages : 1406
Book Description
Departments of Veterans Affairs and Housing and Urban Development, and Independent Agencies Appropriations for 1998
Author: United States. Congress. House. Committee on Appropriations. Subcommittee on VA, HUD, and Independent AgenciesPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 1404
Book Description
Review of Innovative Financing Approaches for Community Water Infrastructure Projects
Author: United States. Congress. House. Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure. Subcommittee on Water Resources and EnvironmentPublisher:
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Category : Federal aid to water quality management
Languages : en
Pages : 242
Book Description
Wastewater Infrastructure Financing
Author: David TrimblePublisher: DIANE Publishing
ISBN: 143793739X
Category : Technology & Engineering
Languages : en
Pages : 57
Book Description
Communities will need hundreds of billions of dollars in coming years to construct and upgrade wastewater infrastructure. Policymakers have proposed a variety of approaches to finance this infrastructure, incl. the creation of a national infrastructure bank (NIB) and the increased use of privately financed public-private partnerships (PPP). In this context, this report identified: (1) Stakeholder views on issues to be considered in the design of an NIB; and (2) the extent to which private financing has been used in wastewater PPPs and its reported advantages and challenges. In conducting this work, a questionnaire was administered to 37 stakeholders with expertise in wastewater utilities, infrastructure needs, and financing. Charts and tables.