| Title | An analysis of 35 water districts : prospects and pitfalls in integrated water services in the Philippines |
| Publication Type | Miscellaneous |
| Year of Publication | 2009 |
| Authors | Sy, J |
| Secondary Title | Field note / WSP |
| Pagination | 7 p. : 5 fig., 7 tab. |
| Date Published | 2009-08-01 |
| Publisher | Water and Sanitation Program - East Asia and the Pacific, WSP-EAP |
| Place Published | Jakarta, Indonesia |
| Keywords | efficiency, evaluation, institutional aspects, philippines, sdiasi, sdiman, urban areas, water authorities |
| Abstract | This Field Note looks into the experience of integration among municipalities and cities under a water district structure. Water districts—local public corporations serving urban areas with a population of at least 20,000 people—serve the largest portion of urban populations with house connections of all providers in the Philippines. Using data from 35 integrated and 109 non-integrated water districts, the study confirms the potential advantage of increasing scale to the reduction of unit costs. However, the study notes that integrated water districts did not perform as well as non-integrated water districts of the same size because of higher fixed costs and greater inefficiency. |
| Custom 1 | 822 |
