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Manny Teodoro, Associate Professor at Texas A&M, delivers an insightful and fun interview. Manny discusses the public vs. private ownership models, the benefits and dangers of each (yes, publicly owned systems are not inherently beneficial), and other water governance issues. Manny also describes decoupling and how it factors into water governance models. Manny lives up to his billing as a great and thoughtful guest.
Here’s one of Manny’s money quotes from this great interview: “We need to be able to trace the relationships between the political decisions that drive investments and the outcomes for public health and economic growth.”
In this session, you’ll learn about:
- The political aspects of water governance
- The credit claiming vs. blame avoidance paradigm
- Perverse incentives for investor-owned water systems
- How regulation tempers those perverse incentives
- Perverse incentives for publicly owned water systems
- Decoupling - what it is, how it works & why the water sector has been slow to adopt it
Resources and links mentioned in or relevant to this session include:
- Manny’s personal website (bookmark this one!)
- Manny’s bio on Texas A&M website
- Manny’s Twitter handle: @MPTeodoro
- YouTube Video of lecture Manny delivered at University of Michigan (love the story about the parade in Saginaw, MI, after its water plant opened)
- Bloomberg article on Jacksonville Privatization
- The Value of Water website
- TWV #126: The Mechanics of Investor-Owned Utility Rate Cases with Gary Verdouw
- TWV #121: Anatomy of Municipal Water Rates with Scott Miller
- TWV #047: The Ups and Downs of Environmental Finance with Jeff Hughes
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