Download or read book Introducing Competition into the Piped Water Market written by Urs Meister and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2007-11-03 with total page 146 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Using tools of modern industrial economics Urs Meister examines the effects of privatisation and competition in the piped water industry. Considering the two main approaches for competition in an industry with natural monopoly character, common carriage (interconnection) and franchise bidding (auctions), he analyses costs, retail prices and investment. Such analysis shows that competition may be a valuable opportunity to improve the efficiency of water supply.