Challenges and opportunities for efficient management of drinking water, sanitation and electricity services in the Dominican Republic

Abstract

Water supply, sanitation, and electricity services are necessary for improving human healthy, poverty reduction, inequality, well-being, feeding, economic growth and development, among others. So, the equity, efficiency, and sustainability for accessing to these services are a previous requirement for the sustainable development and the achievement of each objective. The study developed on the provision of drinking water, sanitation, and electricity aims to identify and describe the variables that affect efficient provision and propose a line of research about it. To this end, it has been described the situation of the management and provision of these services by a systematization of technical and actual information; also, the relevant factors in the political and institutional, economic, and social dimensions have been characterized beyond the traditional technical focus, affecting the efficient provision of these services. The results show that there are series of variables in the political-institutional, economic, and social grounds that affect the quality of these services.