Episode 73: Alexander Danilenko developed and managed the International Benchmarking Network of Water and Sanitation Utilities of the World Bank (IBNET) from 1998 to 2018. IBNET (https://www.ib-net.org) is the largest publicly available database of water utilities' performance. Alexander is directly involved in water reform agenda in many countries, where IBNET performance assessment tools are being used for the sector development. He works with water sector development of Uganda now. Alexander holds PhD in Environmental (Physical) Chemistry from Kazakh National Academy of Sciences and MSc in Resource Economics from University of Massachusetts, Amherst.

Episode motto: "The public provision of data creates more value than it costs."

Links:

IBNET database: https://database.ib-net.org/DefaultNew.aspx

Tariffs' database: https://tariffs.ib-net.org/

[David] How to price water for conservation and fiscal stability

https://kysq.org/aguanomics/2015/04/how-to-price-water-for-conservation-in-california/