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After the analysis of the current situation of the water supply and sanitation in the research areas and of the assessment of the possible production cost development in the next decades, the next step is to discuss how the situation could be improved. The focus of the discussion is again on the economic and financial perspective. On the basis of the results of Chap. 6, a revision of the currently applied tariffs is suggested. Some general ideas on how water supply and sanitation systems in developing countries can be improved cost efficiently are introduced and considerations on the way of financing them will be presented.
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Echternacht, L. (2014). Possible Adjustments in the Water Sector. In: Pricing Urban Water. SpringerBriefs in Water Science and Technology. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-04190-2_7
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