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Leaky Governance: Alternative Service Delivery and the Myth of Water Utility Independence
Municipalities face important water supply challenges. One response has been to render utilities independent from municipal government through alternative service delivery (ASD). For its proponents, ASD provides needed autonomy from municipal government; for its detractors, it is privatization under another name. Using Ontario as a case study, Kathryn Furlong paints a complex picture of both ASD and municipal government. Examining organizational models for water supply and how they are affected by shifting governance and institutional environments, she reveals water management and municipal governance to be deeply interdependent and contends that both must be strengthened to meet contemporary water supply needs.
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Leaky Governance: Alternative Service Delivery and the Myth of Water Utility Independence
Municipalities face important water supply challenges. One response has been to render utilities independent from municipal government through alternative service delivery (ASD). For its proponents, ASD provides needed autonomy from municipal government; for its detractors, it is privatization under another name. Using Ontario as a case study, Kathryn Furlong paints a complex picture of both ASD and municipal government. Examining organizational models for water supply and how they are affected by shifting governance and institutional environments, she reveals water management and municipal governance to be deeply interdependent and contends that both must be strengthened to meet contemporary water supply needs.
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Leaky Governance: Alternative Service Delivery and the Myth of Water Utility Independence

Leaky Governance: Alternative Service Delivery and the Myth of Water Utility Independence

by Kathryn Furlong
Leaky Governance: Alternative Service Delivery and the Myth of Water Utility Independence

Leaky Governance: Alternative Service Delivery and the Myth of Water Utility Independence

by Kathryn Furlong

Overview

Municipalities face important water supply challenges. One response has been to render utilities independent from municipal government through alternative service delivery (ASD). For its proponents, ASD provides needed autonomy from municipal government; for its detractors, it is privatization under another name. Using Ontario as a case study, Kathryn Furlong paints a complex picture of both ASD and municipal government. Examining organizational models for water supply and how they are affected by shifting governance and institutional environments, she reveals water management and municipal governance to be deeply interdependent and contends that both must be strengthened to meet contemporary water supply needs.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9780774831499
Publisher: University of British Columbia Press
Publication date: 08/01/2016
Edition description: Reprint
Pages: 240
Product dimensions: 6.00(w) x 8.90(h) x 0.60(d)
Age Range: 18 Years

About the Author

Kathryn Furlong is assistant professor of geography at the Universite de Montreal.

Table of Contents

Preface

1 Alternative Service Delivery: Rhetoric and Reform

2 Understanding ASD: Antecedents and Relevance

3 Driving Forces: Turning to ASD in Ontario

4 Leaky Governance: Interdependence and Politics beyond Government

5 Challenging ASD: Opening the Local Government Container

6 ASD and the Goal of Efficiency

7 Conclusions

Notes

Bibliography

Index

What People are Saying About This

Farhana Sultana

This is a fascinating and important analysis of water supply in Canada. Leaky Governance demonstrates how water supply and provision is a complex interplay between local governance and municipal politics. The book is an excellent contribution to the growing scholarship in water governance.

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