Measuring the performance of water service providers in urban India: implications for managing water utilities

Water Policy ◽  
2012 ◽  
Vol 14 (3) ◽  
pp. 391-408 ◽  
Author(s):  
Shreekant Gupta ◽  
Surender Kumar ◽  
Gopal K. Sarangi
Keyword(s):  
Service Providers ◽  
Returns To Scale ◽  
Supply System ◽  
Water Utilities ◽  
Data Envelopment ◽  
Urban Water ◽  
Urban Water Supply ◽  
Domestic Water ◽  
Functional Autonomy ◽  
Indian Cities

This study assesses the efficiency of the urban water supply system in 27 selected Indian cities. It applies data envelopment analysis (DEA) as an analytical tool to measure technical efficiency. Cities are categorized into different groups according to the management structure of their water utilities. The results show that within groups, the utilities that are managed by ‘municipal corporations (MCs) and parastatals', with a certain amount of functional autonomy, perform better in comparison to the group ‘MCs and government’ and thus, strengthen the hypothesis that functional autonomy in management leads to better performance of the water utilities. Moreover, the results also have implications for urban domestic water pricing. We find that most water utilities are operating under decreasing returns to scale (DRS), implying that water should be priced at a marginal cost of supply.

scholarly journals Innovative approach for achieving of sustainable urban water supply system by using of solar photovoltaic energy

2017 ◽  
Vol 37 (1) ◽  
pp. 58 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jure Margeta ◽  
Bojan Đurin
Keyword(s):  
Water Supply ◽  
Urban Areas ◽  
Renewable Energy Sources ◽  
Water Reservoir ◽  
Supply System ◽  
Water Supply System ◽  
Urban Water ◽  
Solar Photovoltaic ◽  
Urban Water Supply ◽  
Pump Station

Paper describes and analyses new and innovative concept for possible integration of solar photovoltaic (PV) energy in urban water supply system (UWSS). Proposed system consists of PV generator and invertor, pump station and water reservoir. System is sized in such a manner that every his part is sized separately and after this integrated into a whole. This integration is desirable for several reasons, where the most important is the achievement of the objectives of sustainable living in urban areas i.e. achieving of sustainable urban water supply system. The biggest technological challenge associated with the use of solar, wind and other intermittent renewable energy sources RES is the realization of economically and environmentally friendly electric energy storage (EES). The paper elaborates the use of water reservoires in UWSS as EES. The proposed solution is still more expensive than the traditional and is economically acceptable today in the cases of isolated urban water system and special situations. Wider application will depend on the future trends of energy prices, construction costs of PV generators and needs for CO2 reduction by urban water infrastructure.

scholarly journals State-of-the-art review on the transient flow modeling and utilization for urban water supply system (UWSS) management

2020 ◽  
Vol 69 (8) ◽  
pp. 858-893 ◽  
Author(s):  
Huan-Feng Duan ◽  
Bin Pan ◽  
Manli Wang ◽  
Lu Chen ◽  
Feifei Zheng ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Water Supply ◽  
Transient Flow ◽  
State Of The Art ◽  
Turbulence Models ◽  
Supply System ◽  
Water Supply System ◽  
Urban Water ◽  
Urban Water Supply ◽  
City Development ◽  
Rapid Urbanization

Abstract In the context of smart city development and rapid urbanization worldwide, urban water supply system (UWSS) has been of vital importance to this process. This paper presents a comprehensive review on the transient flow research for UWSS management. This review consists of two aspects as follows. The first aspect is about the development and progress of current transient theory, including transient flow models, unsteady friction and turbulence models, and numerical simulation methods. The other aspect is about the utilization and application of transient-based methods for effective UWSS diagnosis and management, including leakage, discrete and extended partial blockages, unknown branch, and other defects in water pipelines. A total of 228 publications have been reviewed and analyzed in this paper. In addition to the state-of-the-art progress and achievement of the research on transients, the advances and recommendations of future work in this field are also discussed for the development and management of next-generation smart UWSS in the paper.

The Relationship and Regression Analysis of Urban Water Supply and Temperature

2012 ◽  
Vol 256-259 ◽  
pp. 2420-2423
Author(s):  
Heng Hua Shi ◽  
Wen Guo Weng ◽  
Zheng Gan Zhai ◽  
Yuan Yuan Li
Keyword(s):  
Regression Analysis ◽  
Water Supply ◽  
Meteorological Factors ◽  
Supply System ◽  
Scientific Management ◽  
Urban Water ◽  
Urban Water Supply ◽  
Analysis Method ◽  
Factors Affecting ◽  
The Relationship

Urban water supply system and the people’s daily life are closely related. In addition to the urban population, the structure and the scale of economic, the factors affecting the requirement of urban water supply included the meteorological factors such as temperature. Based on Pearson product-moment correlation coefficient, we analyze the relationship between urban water supply and temperature with the actual data of Beijing from 2008 year to 2009 year, and get regression fitting function with multiple regression analysis method. The analysis result can provide the basis for scientific management and accurately predict urban water supply.

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