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Colección: INTERAMER
Número: 69
Año: 2000
Autor: Ramón López and Juan Carlos Jordán, Editors
Título: Sustainable Development in Latin America: Financing and Policies Working in Synergy
TABLE 3
SOME OECD INTERNATIONAL EXPERIENCES WITH WATER PRICING
SOME OECD INTERNATIONAL EXPERIENCES WITH WATER PRICING
Country
|
Revenue application
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Regulatory and management setting
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Pricing criteria
|
Results
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France
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To finance sanitation works in the basins
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Committees/ basin agency
|
Public prices and environmental standards
|
Consolidation of the basin level as the main unit
of management and revenue generation / distribution
|
Holland
|
To finance sanitation works in municipalities
|
State and federal government levels
|
Public prices and environmental standards
|
High and increasing charge levels forced abatement
practices and generated substantial revenue
|
Germany
|
To finance sanitation works in municipalities
|
State and federal government levels
|
Public prices and environmental standards
|
Charge exemption scheme for additional abatement led
to high overall abatement level and reduced revenue collection
|
United States
|
To finance the water management agency
|
Federal government
|
Public prices
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High price subsidies to irrigation uses
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Source: Serôada Motta (1998a).