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Regionalization of Advantages
Author(s) -
Manwaring James F.
Publication year - 1979
Publication title -
journal ‐ american water works association
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.466
H-Index - 74
eISSN - 1551-8833
pISSN - 0003-150X
DOI - 10.1002/j.1551-8833.1979.tb04341.x
Subject(s) - pooling , purchasing , capital (architecture) , business , economies of scale , scale (ratio) , resource (disambiguation) , operations management , industrial organization , finance , economics , computer science , marketing , geography , cartography , computer network , archaeology , artificial intelligence
Economies of scale, capital resource pooling, and improvement in operation are some of the advantages of regionalization. A large proportion of the hundreds of thousands of small water systems in the U.S. could benefit through regionalization. Unified purchasing, operation, maintenance, monitoring, planning, and financial and administrative management functions could be carried out by a single staff.