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Who should own municipal water supply and sewage treatment facilities? Who should operate them? Who should regulate them? To what extent should government be involved? What is the private sector's role? In the following discussion of these questions, I will focus on four different approaches -four levels of government involvement -and explore the environmental implications of each approach. First, I will describe the Canadian approach: In Canada, virtually all water and sewage utilities are publicly owned and publicly operated. Then, I will discuss the French approach: In France, many municipalities contract out water and sewage operations to private companies. Next, I will turn to the British approach: England and Wales have fully privatized their water and sewage services. Finally, I will touch on the private approach -an approach in which government regulation is made unnecessary by competitive markets and property rights. 1 ## Canada In Canada, we face a number of water problems. Some of the problems concern water supply. Although we have nine per cent of the world's fresh water (and less than one per cent of the world's population), much of it is inaccessible: Sixty per cent r

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Author

Elizabeth Brubaker

Publisher

Walter de Gruyter GmbH

Published

1998

Language

EN

Field

Economics, Econometrics and Finance (Social Sciences)