Efficiency Evaluation of Water and Municipal Wastewater, Using Data Envelopment Analysis Approach: A Case Study in Markazi Province

Abstract

Nowadays productivity evaluation and its components, and efficiency and effectiveness, is one of the concerns of businesses and government agencies. Water and sewerage companies, given its resource constraints, are intended to increase the efficiency of their activities in order to provide drinking water and industry, and hence, increasing the efficiency of water and municipal wastewater plants in each province, will be the development of the whole province. This paper presents a method based upon data envelopment analysis to measure the efficiency affairs of water and wastewater cities in Markazi province, and carried out with real data, related to the cities, and analyzing the results.