Administrative Reform for Sustainable Public Water Services in Japan: A Case Study of Sewerage Management Reform
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The momentum of public water administrative reform in tensified in Japan after the experience of the world financial crisis of 2007-2008, as we llas the Great East Japan Earthquake and Tsunami event. The public water business reform in Japan continues to exhibit the organizational reform of corporatization and private sector partnership for more efficiency, but it does not show the institution al and resource governancere form examining a new division of roles between the national and local government and citizen participation in the water service policy development process. The “redundancy” of management resources coping with earthquakes and heavy rains is emphasized. Suchredundancy of the sewerage service system is a cost-up and uncerta in factor in long-term manage mentrisk, which is especially high lighted in the process of implementation of public-to- private outsourcing contracts.References
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