Unaccounted for water and the performance of water utilities: An empirical analysis from India

Water Policy

Volumn 12, Issue 5, 2010, Pages 707-721

  Kumar, Surender ^a  

^a TERI UNIVERSITY   (India)

Author keywords

Data envelopment analysis (DEA); Directional distance function; India; Unaccounted for water (UFW); Urban water supply

Indexed keywords

EID: 77958109383     PISSN: 13667017     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2166/wp.2010.022     Document Type: Article

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