Ebook: Leaky Governance: Alternative Service Delivery and the Myth of Water Utility Independence
Author: Kathryn Furlong
- Tags: Water utilities -- Ontario, Water-supply -- Economic aspects -- Ontario, Water-supply -- Government policy -- Ontario, Water-supply -- Ontario -- Management, Municipal government -- Ontario, Privatization -- Ontario, BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Infrastructure, SOCIAL SCIENCE -- General, Municipal government, Privatization, Water-supply -- Economic aspects, Water-supply -- Government policy, Water-supply -- Management, Water utilities, Ontario
- Year: 2016
- Publisher: UBC Press
- City: Ontario.
- Language: English
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"Municipalities face important water supply challenges. One response has been to render utilities independent from municipal government through alternative service delivery (ASD). For its proponents, ASD provides needed autonomy from municipal government; for its detractors, it is privatization under another name. Using Ontario as a case study, Kathryn Furlong paints a complex picture of both ASD and municipal Read more...