01405nam a2200193Ia 4500 CTU_166345 210402s9999 xx 000 0 und d 363.61 C755 Consumer cooperatives : An alternative institutional model for delivery of urban water supply and sanitation services? Fernando Ruiz-Mier, Meike van Ginneken Washington DC World bank 2006 This paper describes the essential characteristics of consumer cooperatives engaged in the provision of basic services and discusses their applicability as a model for water supply and sanitation service provision in urban areas. A cooperative is an autonomous association of persons united voluntarily to meet their common economic, social, and cultural needs and aspirations through a jointly-owned and democratically-controlled enterprise. The paper focuses on system-wide urban water supply cooperatives and it is thus not concerned with urban or peri-urban cooperatives that depend on either boreholes or bulk purchases of water from a utility for distribution, nor does it refer to rural water supply cooperatives that are generally small. Water supply,Sanitation services,Dịch vụ vệ sinh,Cung cấp nước Trọng Hiếu Trung tâm Học liệu Trường Đại học Cần Thơ