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Meeting multiple mandates: The increasing complexity of water utility management

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  • Cabrera Flamini, Andres
  • Schwartz, Klaas

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This study provides a historical framework of the cumulative mandates of water supply utilities: universal coverage, commercial viability, and sustainability. The political agendas, development programs, and societal demands that have led to this overlap of multiple, and at times competing, mandates are discussed to inform the complexity water utilities face. Further, the detrimental effect of climate change, demographic change, urbanization, pollution, and ageing infrastructure on achieving these mandates is explained. Water utility management is portrayed as becoming increasingly complex, resulting in a need for more diverse knowledge, skills, and capacities in addressing the challenges facing water utilities.

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  • Cabrera Flamini, Andres & Schwartz, Klaas, 2025. "Meeting multiple mandates: The increasing complexity of water utility management," Utilities Policy, Elsevier, vol. 96(C).
    • Handle: RePEc:eee:juipol:v:96:y:2025:i:c:s0957178725001481
    DOI: 10.1016/j.jup.2025.102033
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