Potable Water Supply in Tunisia: The Tariff Regulation Model Faces Future Challenges

Potable water supply in Tunisia is characterized by the achievement of good performance, officially attributed to a centralized public management & to the social policy pursued in the sector for over forty years. The latter was mainly realized through cross-subsidization between regions at natio...

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Published in:Revue Tiers monde 2010-07 (203), p.61-80
Main Authors: Touzi, Sarra, Barraque, Bernard, Treyer, Sebastien
Format: Article
Language:fre
Subjects:
Consumption
Criteria
Distributive Justice
Drinking water
Equity
Management
Public services
Regulation
Services
Social Policy
Social Sciences
Tariff
Taxation
Tunisia
Water Supply
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Summary:Potable water supply in Tunisia is characterized by the achievement of good performance, officially attributed to a centralized public management & to the social policy pursued in the sector for over forty years. The latter was mainly realized through cross-subsidization between regions at national level, & between levels of consumption. This article describes this development; it then considers the limitations of the current centralized organization & discusses the equity criteria adopted to set up the territorial compensation mechanism; mobilizing for this purpose the theory of distributive justice as one of the analysis grids. It highlights certain issues that should be addressed by future social sciences studies & research in order to propose possible developments of these criteria & the resulting changes in service organization. Adapted from the source document.
ISSN:1293-8882