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Thinking Outside the Pipeline : Venturing into Distributed Off-Grid Water Markets
dc.contributor.author | Kumar, Vikram | |
dc.contributor.author | Davies, Will | |
dc.date.accessioned | 2012-08-13T11:36:24Z | |
dc.date.available | 2012-08-13T11:36:24Z | |
dc.date.issued | 2010-11 | |
dc.description.abstract | Traditionally, International Finance Corporation (IFC) engagement in the water sector has focused on large municipal infrastructure projects, where individual transactions are of sufficient scale to attract commercial project finance. Such projects, involving capital-intensive network infrastructure, can often be commercially attractive but have generally failed to provide access to poorer consumers living outside of formal urban centers. So what about the 'base of the pyramid' populations that those large utility systems fail to reach, rural communities, and sometimes poorer urban customers living within informal settlements and rapidly growing peri-urban areas? New business models are needed, adapted to the reality of water-supply necessities in the developing world, but with the economies of scale required to achieve financial sustainability. This smart lesson describes some early ventures by IFC to invest in and develop market opportunities in the challenging but potentially far-reaching area of distributed off-grid water supplies. | en |
dc.identifier | http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/2010/11/13190422/thinking-outside-pipeline-venturing-distributed-off-grid-water-markets | |
dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/10986/10461 | |
dc.language | English | |
dc.publisher | World Bank, Washington, DC | |
dc.relation.ispartofseries | IFC Smart Lessons Brief | |
dc.rights | CC BY-NC-ND 3.0 IGO | |
dc.rights.holder | World Bank | |
dc.rights.uri | http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/igo/ | |
dc.subject | ACCESS TO SAFE WATER | |
dc.subject | ACCESS TO WATER | |
dc.subject | CLEAN WATER | |
dc.subject | COMMUNITY SYSTEMS | |
dc.subject | COMPETITIVE BIDDING | |
dc.subject | COMPETITIVE BIDDING PROCESS | |
dc.subject | CONTRACT PERIOD | |
dc.subject | COVERING | |
dc.subject | DEMAND FOR WATER | |
dc.subject | DRINKING WATER | |
dc.subject | FIXED COSTS | |
dc.subject | IRRIGATION | |
dc.subject | LARGE UTILITY | |
dc.subject | LOCAL COMMUNITIES | |
dc.subject | LOCAL COMMUNITY | |
dc.subject | MAINTENANCE COSTS | |
dc.subject | MONITORING PROGRAM | |
dc.subject | MUNICIPAL INFRASTRUCTURE | |
dc.subject | MUNICIPAL WATER | |
dc.subject | OPERATIONAL CAPACITY | |
dc.subject | OPERATORS | |
dc.subject | PIPELINE | |
dc.subject | PIPELINES | |
dc.subject | PIPES | |
dc.subject | POPULATION GROWTH | |
dc.subject | PRIVATE OPERATOR | |
dc.subject | PRODUCTS | |
dc.subject | PROFIT MARGINS | |
dc.subject | PROGRAMS | |
dc.subject | RESEARCH | |
dc.subject | RURAL COMMUNITIES | |
dc.subject | RURAL WATER | |
dc.subject | SAFE WATER | |
dc.subject | SANITATION FACILITIES | |
dc.subject | SANITATION SECTOR | |
dc.subject | SANITATION SERVICES | |
dc.subject | SERVICE QUALITY | |
dc.subject | SLUMS | |
dc.subject | SPARE PARTS | |
dc.subject | SUSTAINABLE WATER | |
dc.subject | SUSTAINABLE WATER SUPPLY | |
dc.subject | SYSTEMS | |
dc.subject | URBAN AREAS | |
dc.subject | URBAN CENTERS | |
dc.subject | URBAN SANITATION | |
dc.subject | UTILITIES | |
dc.subject | WATER | |
dc.subject | WATER MARKET | |
dc.subject | WATER MARKETS | |
dc.subject | WATER RESOURCES | |
dc.subject | WATER SCARCITY | |
dc.subject | WATER SECTOR | |
dc.subject | WATER SOURCE | |
dc.subject | WATER SUPPLIES | |
dc.subject | WATER SUPPLY SERVICES | |
dc.subject | WATER SUPPLY SYSTEMS | |
dc.subject | WATER SYSTEMS | |
dc.subject | WELLS | |
dc.title | Thinking Outside the Pipeline : Venturing into Distributed Off-Grid Water Markets | en |
dspace.entity.type | Publication | |
okr.date.disclosure | 2012-01-17 | |
okr.doctype | Publications & Research :: Brief | |
okr.doctype | Publications & Research | |
okr.docurl | http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/2010/11/13190422/thinking-outside-pipeline-venturing-distributed-off-grid-water-markets | |
okr.globalpractice | Water | |
okr.identifier.externaldocumentum | 000333037_20101203003610 | |
okr.identifier.internaldocumentum | 13190422 | |
okr.identifier.report | 58255 | |
okr.language.supported | en | |
okr.pdfurl | http://www-wds.worldbank.org/external/default/WDSContentServer/WDSP/IB/2010/12/03/000333037_20101203003610/Rendered/PDF/582550BRI0IFC01ter0utilities01FINAL.pdf | en |
okr.topic | Water Supply and Sanitation :: Water Supply and Systems | |
okr.topic | Water Supply and Sanitation :: Water Supply and Sanitation Governance and Institutions | |
okr.topic | Water Supply and Sanitation :: Town Water Supply and Sanitation | |
okr.topic | Water Resources :: Water and Industry | |
okr.topic | Water Resources :: Water Conservation | |
okr.unit | Infra-Power Trans Utilities-CAF (CN2S6) | |
okr.volume | 1 of 1 | |
relation.isSeriesOfPublication | 99147cd6-fa98-4a58-b3e7-81af3f4ffd98 |
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