| Title | Uniqueness of water services |
| Publication Type | Miscellaneous |
| Year of Publication | 2010 |
| Authors | Pietilä, PE, Katko, TS, Seppala, OT |
| Secondary Title | E-WAter |
| Pagination | 17 p.; 2 fig. |
| Date Published | 2010-05-18 |
| Publisher | European Water Association, EWA |
| Place Published | Tampere, Finland |
| Keywords | safe water supply, sanitation services, water supply, water supply services |
| Abstract | Water services, both community water supply and sanitation, present several special characteristics compared to other commodities. This paper first discusses water as a basic need and a human right, an economic good, a public good, a non-substitutable good and a local resource. Then it presents a three-phase PESTEL (political, economic, socio-cultural, technical, environmental/ecological, and legal) analysis of Finnish water services by a group of experts. Water is an economic as well as a public good with a mixture of other features that vary by time and place. [authors abstract] |
| Notes | With 40 references |
| Custom 1 | 205.0 |
