Despite the great social importance of providing services to population, solving this problem is complicated at present by difficulties associated with lack a unified methodology for managing level municipal entities, state minimum standards, and also not fully resolved issues delimiting powers subjects jurisdiction between levels government. It necessary understand that provision local among o...

In the last two decades many major regulatory issues in Florida have been resolved by means of stipulated settlements between the utilities and interested parties, notably the Office of Public Counsel, instead of by the traditional method of hearings and litigation before the Public Services Commission. This paper investigates the extent, nature and effects of these stipulations in the electric...

Drinking water quality in the United States (US) is among the safest in the world. However, many residents, often in rural areas, rely on unregulated private wells or small municipal utilities for water needs. These utilities may violate the Safe Drinking Water Act contaminant guidelines, often because they lack the required financial resources. Residents may use alternative water sources or in...

Johannesburg, South Africa Background to CDS Process of CDS Outcome • Population 3.5 million, 12% of nation GDP in the city, 30% below poverty line, stagnant economy, unemployment rising to almost 30% • Transformation of civic structure, from a single municipality, now the greater Johannesburg municipality with executive powers for the Mayor • CDS process begun as a part of strategic planning p...

Organizations opt to reduce costs by contracting their day-to-day computing needs to service providers who offer large-scale data centers and cloud computing services. Like other computing commodities, data centers provide paid services that require careful pricing. Using a Stackelberg game formulation, we present a demand-based pricing model for maximizing revenue of data center providers that...

This study deals with the general employee's strike in Jordanian law and international treaties, as well laws of some countries such Egypt, Emirates, France. The public employee is an embodiment spirit utility driving element management activity, without which all other elements that contribute to functioning utilities are just worthless useless tools. Therefore, since leads suspension services...

R eduction of nonrevenue water use is currently a common goal for most water distribution systems. Nonrevenue water consists of water lost either through real losses (e.g., underground leakage) or through apparent losses (e.g., metering inaccuracies and unauthorized use). Reducing the apparent losses caused by meter inaccuracies at low flows can result in substantial short-term increases in uti...

As the world population grows, recent climatic changes seem to bring powerful storms to populated areas. The impact of these storms on utility services is devastating. Hurricane Sandy is a recent example of the enormous damages that storms can inflict on infrastructure, society, and the economy. Quick response to these emergencies represents a big challenge to electric power utilities. Traditio...