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A bridge over troubled waters

5 May 2011

Many of the systems that treat and distribute drinking water perform is the author of three books poorly, many of those that collect and treat sewage are substandard, and many of both systems and a former member of need more capital investment. [...] It warned, “it is difficult to imagine that small utilities with fewer resources available to them will be able to comprehend and implement activities to bring them into compliance.” Infrastructure Canada (2004, 9) bemoaned the inadequacy of data-management capabilities, saying that many municipalities “lack the expertise and the information needed to monitor infrastructure, and to assess the need [...] Thanks to the of its foul smelling sewage sludge in a tailings size of the plant and its operational features and pond owned by Vale, the mining company, must patented technologies, operating and maintenance find another disposal method by the end of 2012 costs are lower than they would have been at the when its agreement with Vale expires. [...] Water to call it “the most serious impediment to To ensure that operating savings do not the creation of a competitive environment in necessitate greater capital expenditures in the Ontario” (Paisley and Brubaker 2001).18 Other future, long-term agreements can assign to the water-services providers have likewise expressed service provider the responsibility for both frustration over the difficulti [...] Given the lower, thereby raising the pressure in pipes and monopolistic nature of most water and wastewater causing some to rupture (McGuiness, 1999.) The systems, competition is generally for the market city and the operator denied the allegations, rather than in the market.
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Authors

Brubaker, Elizabeth

ISBN
9780888068392
Pages
32
Published in
Canada

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