Performance assessment of urban utilities: The case of water supply, wastewater and solid waste

Journal of Water Supply: Research and Technology - AQUA

Volumn 58, Issue 5, 2009, Pages 305-315

  Alegre, H ^a   Cabrera Jr , E ^b   Merkel, W ^c  

^a NATIONAL LABORATORY FOR CIVIL ENGINEERING   (Portugal)

^b UNIVERSITAT POLITÈCNICA DE VALÈNCIA   (Spain)

^c IWW Water Centre   (Germany)

Author keywords

COST Action C18; Infrastructure asset management; Performance assessment; Solid waste; Wastewater; Water supply

Indexed keywords

EUROPEAN UNION; INFRASTRUCTURE ASSET MANAGEMENT; PERFORMANCE ASSESSMENT; PRACTICAL EXPERIENCE; RESEARCH AREAS; URBAN INFRASTRUCTURE; URBAN UTILITY; WATER INDUSTRIES;

ASSET MANAGEMENT; COSTS; SOLID WASTES; WASTEWATER; WATER SUPPLY; WATER SUPPLY SYSTEMS;

WASTE MANAGEMENT;

EUROPEAN UNION; INFRASTRUCTURE PLANNING; PERFORMANCE ASSESSMENT; SERVICE PROVISION; SOLID WASTE; URBAN SYSTEM; WASTEWATER; WATER INDUSTRY; WATER SUPPLY;

EID: 77149124012     PISSN: 00037214     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2166/aqua.2009.041     Document Type: Article

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