Efficient water utilities: Use of performance indicator system and data envelopment analysis

Water Science and Technology: Water Supply

Volumn 14, Issue 5, 2014, Pages 787-794

  Singh, Mamata ^a   Mittal, Atul K ^b   Upadhyay, V ^b  

^a Directorate of Training and Technical Education   (India)

^b INDIAN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY DELHI   (India)

Author keywords

Benchmarking; Data envelopment analysis (DEA); Performance indicators (PIs); Urban water utilities

Indexed keywords

DATA ENVELOPMENT ANALYSIS; WASTE DISPOSAL;

BENCHMARKING TECHNIQUES; COMPETITIVE ENVIRONMENT; PERFORMANCE ASSESSMENT; PERFORMANCE INDICATORS; URBAN WATERS; WATER UTILITY;

BENCHMARKING;

BENCHMARKING; DATA ACQUISITION; PERFORMANCE ASSESSMENT; URBAN PLANNING; WATER PLANNING;

ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DATA ENVELOPMENT ANALYSIS; ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; MEASUREMENT; PERFORMANCE; PERFORMANCE INDICATOR SYSTEM; QUALITY CONTROL; WATER AND WATER RELATED PHENOMENA; WATER SUPPLY; WATER UTILITY;

INDIA; MAHARASHTRA;

EID: 84914162409     PISSN: 16069749     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2166/ws.2014.036     Document Type: Article

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