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    Título
    Techno-economic efficiency of water utilities: a peer-evaluation estimation
    Autor
    Mocholí Arce, Manuel
    Sala Garrido, Ramón
    Maziotis, Alexandros
    Molinos Senante, MaríaAutoridad UVA Orcid
    Año del Documento
    2025
    Editorial
    Springer
    Descripción
    Producción Científica
    Documento Fuente
    Water Resources Management, 2025.
    Resumen
    Water utilities provide water and sanitation services in monopolistic conditions. Hence, assessing their performance through benchmarking is crucial for proper regulation. This research addresses the limitations of self-evaluation Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA) models commonly used for benchmarking water utilities’ efficiency. Given that these mod- els often lead to overestimated efficiency scores, our study introduces a cross-efficiency analysis framework integrating both self and peer-evaluation perspectives. This innovative approach, applied to a representative sample of Chilean water utilities, uniquely consid- ers unplanned water supply interruptions and sewerage blockages as undesirable outputs, emphasizing service continuity. Average techno-economic efficiency scores based on self- evaluation, and peer-evaluation were 0.681 and 0.388, respectively. Hence, significant techno-economic efficiency overestimations in self-evaluation scores are evident, with implications for regulatory challenges and potential service quality compromises. The data also highlights a considerable opportunity for improvement in water and sanitation continuity in Chilean water utilities. The findings not only shine a spotlight on the inherent biases of prevalent benchmarking techniques but also highlight a substantial avenue for bolstering water and sanitation service continuity within water utilities.
    Materias Unesco
    3308 Ingeniería y Tecnología del Medio Ambiente
    Palabras Clave
    Techno-economic efficiency
    Water utilities
    Quality of service
    Continuity
    Data envelopment analysis
    Cross-efficiency
    ISSN
    0920-4741
    Revisión por pares
    SI
    DOI
    10.1007/s11269-025-04126-5
    Patrocinador
    Open access funding provided by FEDER European Funds and the Junta De Castilla y León under the Research and Innovation Strategy for Smart Specialization (RIS3) of Castilla y León 2021-2027.
    Version del Editor
    https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11269-025-04126-5
    Propietario de los Derechos
    © 2025 The Author(s)
    Idioma
    eng
    URI
    https://uvadoc.uva.es/handle/10324/75892
    Tipo de versión
    info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion
    Derechos
    openAccess
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