The IBNET Water Supply and Sanitation Performance Blue Book

Alexander Danilenko, Caroline van den Berg

ISBN 10: 0821385828 / ISBN 13: 9780821385821

Published by World Bank Publications, US, 2010

About this Item

This Blue Book of the International Network of Water and Sanitation Utilities (IBNET) is designed to raise awareness of how benchmarking and specifically IBNET tools can help enhance utility performance and thereby help to improve urban water and wastewater services. As the largest public water sector performance database IBNET provides comparative information on utilities' cost and performance indicators. IBNET set and implemented the first global benchmarking standard for the water and wastewater sector. Since its establishment in 1996, the IBNET program has grown into the largest publicly available water sector performance mechanism that collects, analyses and provides access to the information of more than 2,500 water and wastewater services providers from 110 countries around the world.IBNET serves the interests of many. Utilities can use IBNET tools to identify areas of improvement and set realistic targets; governments can use it to monitor and adjust sector policies and programs, while regulators can use it to ensure that adequate incentives are provided to improve utility performance while consumers get value for money; consumers and civil society can use it to exercise, where necessary, valid concerns about service provision; international agencies and advisers can evaluate the performance of utilities for lending and client advice; and private investors can identify opportunities and viable markets for investments.

Seller Inventory # LU-9780821385821

Bibliographic Details

• Title: The IBNET Water Supply and Sanitation Performance Blue Book
• Publisher: World Bank Publications, US
• Publication Date: 2010
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0821385828
• ISBN 13: 9780821385821
• Binding: Paperback
• Condition: New
• Weight: 385 grams

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Synopsis

This book aims to raise awareness of how the International Benchmarking Network of Water and Sanitation Utilities (IBNET)can help utilities identify ways to improve urban water and wastewater services. It provides an introduction to benchmarking and to the objectives, scope and focus of IBNET and describes some of its recent achievements. The methodology and data behind IBNET are elaborated, and an overview of IBNET results and country data are presented.