on the concept of the future drinking water treatment in italy

on the concept of the future drinking water treatment in italy
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  • Should Italy take water away from hydroelectric plants?
  • Another proposed solution is to open dams to send water to crops, but this means taking water away from hydroelectric plants, at a time when energy supply is also in crisis. Fenoglio says Italy should rather adopt long-term water planning. “We can no longer have very demanding crops, inefficient distribution and irrigation systems” he says.
  • Does Data Envelopment Analysis Improve Water service efficiency in Italy?
  • Many scholars have conducted empirical studies employing non-parametric tech-niques based on data envelopment analysis (DEA) methods to estimate the efficiency of water service operators in Italy [10,23–26].
  • What are determinants of efficiency differentials in the Italian water services industry?
  • Empirical studies aimed at identifying determinants of efficiency differentials in the Italian water services industry have produced ambiguous results. Generally, research has considered ownership, size, and scale economies as potential major determinants of efficiency differentials [25,26,32,33].
  • How does Arera guarantee the sustainability of water prices?
  • In order to guarantee the sustainability of water prices, ARERA sets a cap to the maximum increase that can be applied through the ϑ (theta) multiplier, which represents the upper limit to the amount of operating costs borne by the operator that can be transferred onto consumers.