IDEAS home Printed from https://ideas.repec.org/a/wly/natres/v29y2005i2p109-119.html
   My bibliography  Save this article

For the quality of life — evolution of and lessons learnt from water and sanitation services in Porvoo, Finland, 1900–2000

Author

Listed:
  • Petri S. Juuti
  • Tapio S. Katko
  • Riikka P. Rajala

Abstract

The paper describes and analyses the 100 year development of water supply and sanitation and the lessons learnt in Porvoo, a municipality of 46,000 people on the southern coast of Finland. In urban areas the municipality‐owned utility has always dominated. Over 90 per cent of the investments for the recent wastewater treatment plant went into services, equipment and goods bought from the private sector through 12 tenders, all based on competition. In the neighbouring rural areas, recently merged with the city, there are nine consumer‐managed, non‐profit water cooperatives that buy water in bulk from the city water utility. Although the solutions are based on local conditions and subsidiarity, some more general principles are also highlighted and discussed. Past decisions inevitably also affect future development options.

Suggested Citation

  • Petri S. Juuti & Tapio S. Katko & Riikka P. Rajala, 2005. "For the quality of life — evolution of and lessons learnt from water and sanitation services in Porvoo, Finland, 1900–2000," Natural Resources Forum, Blackwell Publishing, vol. 29(2), pages 109-119, May.
    • Handle: RePEc:wly:natres:v:29:y:2005:i:2:p:109-119
    DOI: 10.1111/j.1477-8947.2005.00120.x
    as

    Download full text from publisher

    File URL: https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1477-8947.2005.00120.x
    Download Restriction: no
    File URL: https://libkey.io/10.1111/j.1477-8947.2005.00120.x?utm_source=ideas
    LibKey link: if access is restricted and if your library uses this service, LibKey will redirect you to where you can use your library subscription to access this item
    ---><---

    More about this item

    Statistics

    Access and download statistics

    Corrections

    All material on this site has been provided by the respective publishers and authors. You can help correct errors and omissions. When requesting a correction, please mention this item's handle: RePEc:wly:natres:v:29:y:2005:i:2:p:109-119. See general information about how to correct material in RePEc.

    If you have authored this item and are not yet registered with RePEc, we encourage you to do it here. This allows to link your profile to this item. It also allows you to accept potential citations to this item that we are uncertain about.

    We have no bibliographic references for this item. You can help adding them by using this form .

    If you know of missing items citing this one, you can help us creating those links by adding the relevant references in the same way as above, for each refering item. If you are a registered author of this item, you may also want to check the "citations" tab in your RePEc Author Service profile, as there may be some citations waiting for confirmation.

    For technical questions regarding this item, or to correct its authors, title, abstract, bibliographic or download information, contact: Wiley Content Delivery (email available below). General contact details of provider: https://doi.org/10.1111/(ISSN)1477-8947 .

    Please note that corrections may take a couple of weeks to filter through the various RePEc services.

    IDEAS is a RePEc service. RePEc uses bibliographic data supplied by the respective publishers.