Colombia : Expanding services to low-income areas comparing private and public water utilities

INTERNATIONALBANK FOR WORLD BANK R E T C N O E N STRUCTION PM AND DEVELO May 2003 No. 24 A regular series of notes highlighting recent lessons emerging from the operational and analytical program of the World Bank`s Latin America and Caribbean Region COLOMBIA: EXPANDING SERVICES TO LOW-INCOME AREAS COMPARING PRIVATE AND PUBLIC WATER UTILITIES Maria Angelica Sotomayor Colombia is one of the most active Latin American countries Their performance from these start dates, until 1999, was in incorporating private sector participation (PSP) in manag- compared with the most efficient public utilities in the coun- ing water utilities. One of the community's main concerns is try: Bogot