Archipelagos and networks: urbanization and water privatization in the South

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Governance Failure: Rethinking the Institutional Dimensions of Urban Water Supply to Poor Households (2008, background): “This suggests that the term ‘‘network’’ is a misnomer when applied to Jakarta’s water supply system, which is more properly described as an ‘‘archipelago,’’ largely confined to elite residential and industrial areas of the city (Bakker, 2003).”
Neoliberalizing Nature? Market Environmentalism in Water Supply in England and Wales (2005, background): “…rapidly (and above inflation) through the 1990s, water companies’ share prices outperformed the market, and water companies reported increasing rates of profit and paid dividends to their shareholders well above the average paid to stock market investors (Figure 7) (Ofwat 1996; Bakker 2003b).”
Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Urban Metabolism (2012, positive): “…and marketization can be conceived in metabolic terms, with resource regulation embodying “the social negotiation of the metabolism of a dynamic resource landscape” and marketization embodying “the reregulation of the social metabolism of nature undertaken by the state” (Bakker 2003b, 49, 52).”