WATER
Designing markets
We help clients with…
Designing markets in water services and resources, (and also advising when markets are not the right solution) for water resources, water nutrient balances, and water supply.
Water Resource Regulatory Framework, Philippines
Castalia defined water allocation principles for the National Water Resources Board in the Philippines that were socially acceptable and economically efficient for both urban and agricultural users. The National Water Resources Board (NWRB) is the agency responsible for regulation of water resources in the Philippines. There were no accepted rules for allocating scarce water between different users which was causing tension. Read more
Water Market Design for Waikato River Basin, New Zealand
Castalia developed a model to understand what a water market for New Zealand rivers would look like. Mighty River Power owned a cascade of hydro generating plants and wanted a mechanism to preserve the value of its investment in a situation in which other users wanted to increase abstraction from the rivers. Read more
Expanding Water Supply in Informal Settlements in Jakarta, Indonesia
Castalia designed an incentive mechanism to enable the concessionaires serving Jakarta to profitably extend piped water service to poor unserved communities. Low-income communities in Jakarta relied on informal, expensive, and poor-quality water supply sources as they were not connected to the piped network. Read more
Services
We help clients with transforming water sectors to ensure water services are reliable, safe, convenient and affordable, even in the ... Read more
We help clients to turn around water utility performance, with specialized diagnostic tools, KPI bench marking, governance, financing and management ... Read more
We help clients to assess where it’s possible to bring competitive pressure to bear in water service provision and designing ... Read more
We help clients to create regulatory systems that ensure high quality water services, at reasonable prices, while providing incentives for ... Read more
We help clients with setting tariffs that allow utilities to recover the cost of service and raise finance, while sending ... Read more
We help clients to create capacity to appraise and implement public private partnerships by developing guidelines and process manuals and ... Read more
We help clients with developing master plans using least cost modeling and scenario-planning to arrive at strategies that are robust ... Read more
We help clients with developing pipelines of projects, using customized screening methodologies to prioritize projects and sequence them for investment, ... Read more
We help clients with appraising and diligencing projects and brownfield investments, using economic and financial models to forecast benefits, costs ... Read more
We help clients with blending private and public finance into viable deal structures, combining government and multilateral grants, loans and ... Read more
We help clients with managing and advising on transactions, attracting private capital and operating expertise to water service provision ... Read more
We help clients with managing stakeholder and building consensus using proprietary methodologies to identify stakeholder interests, channels to influence, and ... Read more
We help clients by providing expert evidence when disputes arise, providing authoritative, independent opinions on matters such as regulatory reasonableness ... Read more
We help clients with designing systems to manage the quality of water resources through assessing the ecosystem impacts of nutrient ... Read more
We help clients with appraising water sector policies using economic tools to assess whether new policies will create a net ... Read more
We help clients with evaluating performance and disseminating lessons through systematic studies of institutional arrangements for water service provision to ... Read more
