water regulations Articles
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Uncertainty in UK water regulation could hinder investment
The stability and predictability of water company regulation in the UK by the Water Services Regulation Authority ("Ofwat"), which is mandated to ensure value for the end consumer, has been a major contributor to attracting private investment into the sector. Since privatisation in 1989, this stable regulatory framework has enabled sector companies to attract over £108 billion of ...
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Legal Lookout: The Shape of Things to Come at EPA
One of the first questions facing EPA in 2005 is who will be in charge. The absence of an administrator even for a short while also means that Steve Johnson, now confirmed as the deputy administrator, will continue to greatly influence not only chemical regulation and pesticide matters, given his background, but other matters involving air and water regulation. Similarly, there are ...
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The Model 5H Oil Skimmer Helps Vancouver Tank Wash Facility Meet Municipal Wastewater Regulations
Oil Skimmers, Inc. uses their Model 5H oil skimming system to help Food Express, Inc. recover waste oil in order to meet municipal water regulations in Vancouver, ...
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Water trading quality programs: An international overview
Water quality trading is gaining traction in a number of watersheds around the world. It is a market-based approach that works alongside water quality regulation to improve water quality, providing flexibility in how regulations are met and potentially lowering regulatory compliance and abatement costs. Our research identified 57 water quality trading programs worldwide. Of these, 26 are active, ...
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Water management problems in the Copiapó Basin, Chile: markets, severe scarcity and the regulator
This research focuses on the determination of the factors that led to the failure of water management in the Copiapó Basin in Chile. Interestingly, the existence of full private ownership and free tradability of water rights has not prevented the overexploitation of groundwater resources. In the paper, firstly, water regulation and the role of the regulator in Chile are briefly ...
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EPA Speeds Alternative Method Approvals
As anyone in the water business will tell you, standard analytical methods are critically important. On April 10, 2007, the EPA announced its intent to implement an expedited process for approving alternative analytical testing methods under various federal water programs. Background Under the Safe Drinking Water Act (SDWA), EPA promulgates national primary drinking water regulations (NPDWRs) ...
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Numerical evaluation of flow regime changes induced by the Three Gorges Dam in the Middle Yangtze
The full operation of the Three Gorges Dam (TGD) has altered the downstream natural flow regime. Flow regime changes have resulted in profound influences on the utility of water resources and hence a large area with a riparian ecosystem including China's two largest freshwater lakes in the Middle Yangtze. Because of complicated flow regimes in this large-scale river–lake system, the TGD's ...
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Setting performance standards for regulation of water services: Benchmarking Latin American utilities
The aim of this study is to estimate both stochastic and mathematical programming efficiency cost frontiers for the Latin American water sector, by means of econometric and Data Envelopment Analysis techniques, using the ADERASA database. ADERASA is the Latin American association for water regulators, which has made a systematic job of data collection, among other initiatives.This study fills a ...
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Bi-directional knife gate valve
Type: Gate Valves, Water Regulating Valves, Air Valves & Vents Customized support: OEM Place of Origin: TIANJIN Brand Name: BKVALVE Model Number: BK-01 Application: ALL Temperature of Media: Medium Temperature Power: ALL Media: ALL Port Size: 4in Structure: BUTTERFLY TYPE: Non Rising Stainless Steel wafer type Slurry Knife Gate Valve SIZE: DN50-600 body: 316 314 disc: Ductile Iron/SS304/SS316 ...
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The customer forum – putting customers at the centre of regulating water services
This article will explore recent initiatives in customer engagement in water services in Scotland, UK. Scotland has a well-established and successful model for water services regulation and governance, with a public supplier performing as efficiently as the top quartile of private English companies. One recent innovation has been a form of negotiated settlement between the provider and a ...
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Disparities in access to clean water and sanitation: institutional causes
This paper uses cross-national data from 2002 and 2004 to assess the effects of key institutional variables on the improvement of access to safe water and sanitation. Two key variables of specific interest are a country's commitment to ‘quality regulation’ and the country's long-term development path. The evidence for the impact of those factors on expanding or contracting access to water and ...
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Gaming in a benchmarking environment. A non-parametric analysis of benchmarking in the water sector
This paper discusses the use of benchmarking in general and its application to the drinking water sector in particular. It systematizes the various classifications of performance measurement, discusses some of the pitfalls of benchmark studies and provides some examples of benchmarking in the water sector. After a presentation of the institutional framework of the water sector in the Belgian ...
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Consumer-inclusive economic regulation: water pricing under different regulatory regimes
This paper investigates whether and how different regulatory regimes for water pricing incorporate mechanisms for consumer inclusion. A literature review suggests that the more separation between policymaking and economic regulation, the higher the incorporation of regulatory governance principles such as transparency, accountability and participation. Our comparative case studies of the system ...
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Development of the South African Water Resource Classification System (WRCS): a tool towards the sustainable, equitable and efficient use of water resources in a developing country
Despite the transition to democracy in 1994, South Africa still had apartheid legislation on the statute books and the allocation of water was regulated by the 1956 Water Act. Accordingly, post-apartheid South Africa underwent a water sector reform process culminating in the new National Water Act (No. 36) of 1998. One component of the Act is the requirement for a classification system to ...
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Reform of water institutions: review of evidences and international experiences
This paper provides an overview of the reform of water institutions in developing countries in the last three decades focusing on the ‘what, why and how’ of institutional reform, and outlines their implications for policy and research. The review covers four areas: (1) water rights and river basin institutions; (2) decentralized irrigation management; (3) private sector participation in urban ...
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Sustainable financing: We know we can… but how?
Ensuring water and sanitation services for all depends on securing appropriate financing, an issue that has long been a major challenge for the water sector. The adoption of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) makes this challenge all the more urgent. How much money do we need to expand and improve water services infrastructure? What about financing for operations and maintenance? Can we ...
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Decoupling dependence on natural water: reflexivity in the regulation and allocation of water in Israel
Since 1999, Israel has secured a decoupling between the total water supplied and water derived from the natural environment through surface and groundwater. Between 2007 and 2010, this decoupling enabled a cut of over 20% in natural water use, while maintaining overall supply volumes despite drought. By 2009–2010, natural water supply had been reduced to the levels of the early ...
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The regulatory reform of water infrastructure in Italy: overall design and local variations
In 1994, the Italian Parliament passed a reform which aimed to radically change the economic regulatory institutions of the water sector in the country. The implementation of the reform, which lasted about twelve years, resulted in a new regulatory regime which combined selected features of public ownership, franchise allocation, and discretionary regulation. The reform was implemented in ...
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An evaluation of hydrometric monitoring across the Canadian pan-Arctic region, 1950–2008
This study evaluates the hydrometric monitoring maintained within the Canadian pan-Arctic and is based on the hydrometric gauges closest to northern seas for 76 river systems throughout 1950–2008. Monitoring is quantified by compiling time series of total gauged area and discharge values from the available hydrometric records. We further evaluate the quality of hydrometric data by examining the ...
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Agent-based modelling of water price negotiation for domestic water management in deurbanisation society of Kanazawa City, Japan
To coordinate urban development with domestic water demand, this paper introduced an agent-based model of household water consumption simulation (HWCSim) to simulate the volume of household water consumption regulated by government total amount control. An important water price negotiation module is embedded in HWCSim model to determine the charge price of water resource during government total ...
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