IWRA - 1st ISLANDS WATER CONGRESS
Special Session (SS2): Freshwater and Islands: A SIDS perspective
Author(s): Helen Deise Barbosa
Helen Deise Barbosa, Södertörns University, Sweden
Oral: PDFAbstractCommercial principles a number of relevant elements:
- Costs of providing services ( operational costs of water services provision and the capital (investment) costs)
- Revenue that is generated by the water utility (tariffs, taxes and transfers)
- Time period over which the cost are to be recovered
- Characteristic of the market (generate revenue from water sales to consumers)
- Bio-physical and governance context (influences the costs of abstracting, treating and distributing water) and legal requirements
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