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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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