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Objectives

This project fills a knowledge gap on the current restructuring of the water sector across Europe by mapping the development of intermediary activities and organisations and assessing whether, in what ways and in what institutional and organisational contexts these services can accelerate the application of resource-saving technologies and social practices.

Key objectives

To review the current status of water market liberalisation across Europe, providing an institutional backdrop for context-sensitive analysis of intermediary activities
To model the emergence of intermediary services and organisations in European infrastructure systems, identifying and conceptualising types of intermediary activities and reasons for their emergence
To map the practices of intermediaries in the water sector with in-depth case studies of seven urban regions in the EU and two Accession States
To evaluate and quantify the impact of intermediaries on the eco- and cost-efficiency of water and wastewater networks, including water saving, pollution minimisation, economic savings and management practices
To accelerate the exploitation of innovative, resource-saving pathways pursued by intermediaries under different regulatory regimes

Principal end-products

A policy review of water market liberalisation, focussing on the Accession States
A research report evaluating the contribution of intermediary services to the application of resource-saving technologies and social practices
A training programme to accelerate the development of the most effective forms of intermediary services addressed at local/regional water managers