WATER
Appraising policies
We help clients with…
Appraising water sector policies using economic tools to assess whether new policies will create a net social benefit.
Water Sector Restructuring, Oman
Castalia helped the Government of the Sultanate of Oman merge various water providers into three regional utilities, develop business plans, calculate cost recovery tariffs, recommend subsidies, and develop a new regime for economic regulation. We assessed the likely impact of the reform. Oman’s government was spending $447 million each year to provide water services and wanted to reduce public spending on water while expanding service. Read more
Otago River Control Scheme, New Zealand
We analyzed the economic benefits of a flood control scheme to determine a fair cost allocation between two regions in New Zealand that are protected by the scheme. One region’s ratepayers were paying an unfair share of the costs for flood control compared to their share of the benefits. 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 with designing markets in water services and resources, (and also advising when markets are not the right ... 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 evaluating performance and disseminating lessons through systematic studies of institutional arrangements for water service provision to ... Read more
