Full cost recovery of water services and the 3 T's of OECD

Le recouvrement des coûts des services rendus par l'usage de l'eau et les 3 T de l'OCDE

Bernard Barraqué
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Bernard Barraqué: CIRED - Centre International de Recherche sur l'Environnement et le Développement - Cirad - Centre de Coopération Internationale en Recherche Agronomique pour le Développement - EHESS - École des hautes études en sciences sociales - AgroParisTech - ENPC - École nationale des ponts et chaussées - Université Paris-Saclay - CNRS - Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique

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Abstract: Considering OECD's 3 T's (tariffs, taxes and transfers) for funding water services, we show how declining water consumption triggered the 3 E's (triple bottom line) approach in the water services sector, calling in turn for new governance mechanisms for a global sustainability. We distinguish internal and external governance, each calling for new scientific approaches to support good decision making. We then develop a specific analysis of the recovery of environmental and resource costs when water services face water resources considered as common pool. In France, the liberal state tradition makes this difficult to implement, leading to incoherent water tariffs.

Keywords: Water services; full cost recovery; European countries (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2020
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Published in Utilities Policy, 2020, 62, pp.100981. ⟨10.1016/j.jup.2019.100981⟩

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DOI: 10.1016/j.jup.2019.100981

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