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Water Supply and Sanitation in Transition Countries
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Water Supply and Sanitation in Transition Countries

May 2009

Dr. Hartwig Graf von Westerholt

Attorney-at-Law

Schiedermair Rechtsanwälte Partnerschaftsgesellschaft

Frankfurt am Main, Germany

Contents

|1. |Guidelines for Integrated Water Resource Management ………………………... |1-2 |
|2. |General Objectives – Regulatory Elements of Water Supply …………………… |2-3 |
|3. |Decentralisation and Centralisation ………………………………………………... |3-11 |
|3.1 |Decentralisation ………………………………………………………………………. |3-4 |
|3.2 |Centralisation …………………………………………………………………………. |4 |
|3.3 |Critical Aspects of Decentralisation and Centralisation ………………………….. |4-5 |
|3.4 |Hybrid Supply Systems ……………………………………………………………… |5-9 |
|3.4.1 |Topics of National Significance …………………………………………………….. |5 |
|3.4.2 |Forms of Cooperation of Decentralized Supply Systems ………………………... |5-9 |
|3.5 |Transition Countries and (De-)Centralization of the Water Sector………………. |9-11 |
|4. |Competition and Price ……………………………………………………………….. |11-18 |
|4.1 |Ground Rules …………………………………………………………………………. |11
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