خوصصة المياه في الدول النامية : مبادئها و نتائجها الاقتصادية و الاجتماعية

Abstract EN

This paper provides an overview about the reality of privatization in water management.

Many options have been implemented, ranging from the least private sector involvement to its total acquisition.

Water privatization involves the transfer of water control or its management services to private companies.

It could include (operation, management, distribution, Collect bills, waste water treatment.

Customer Services ...) in local community.

Water privatization has already occurred in several developed countries and is being propelled in many developing countries through structural adjustment policies.

Water privatization has achieved several results, increasing access to clean water and production efficiency, but it has negative impacts, especially on developing countries, such as high-water prices, unsustainable water extraction by private companies, and endangering water quality, and the spread of many diseases and epidemics, such as cholera disease in South Africa.