Editorial: Special Issue on Private Sector Involvement in Drinking Water Supply: The Experience

Private Sector Involvement (PSI) has been the trend in the 1990s, stimulated by the so-called Washington consensus and the Dublin principles. The Washington consensus was originally a list of ten reforms as a summary of what people in Washington thought Latin America ought to be undertaking as of 1989 (Williamson, 2002).1 The Dublin principles were developed in 1992 during a UN Conference in that city and provide the arguments to consider water as an economic as well as a social good.2 After more than a decade of experiences of PSI in the water sector, we can draw up the balance of the impact of PSI on the water sector.