WATER PRICING
November 1st, 2001
BY KEITH NUTHALL AND ALAN OSBORNWATER pricing reform is on its way in the European Union. The water framework directive passed last year imposes a commitment on Member States by the year 2010 to ensure that their pricing policies "provide adequate incentives for users to use water resources efficiently." The legislation also commits national governments to ensuring that pricing guarantees an "adequate contribution of the different water uses, disaggregated into at least industry, households and agriculture, to the recovery of the costs of water services.....and ...
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