As Chairwoman of Eau de Paris and Deputy Mayor of Paris in charge of water and sanitation policy (2001-2014), she led an overall revamping of the water policy including the creation of the largest public-owned water operator in France. She also held several Vice-presidencies and Executive Director roles in other public institutions in the water and environmental field. She co-founded and chaired Aqua Publica Europea, the European network of public water utilities.

Marine Colon is a teaching researcher at AgroParisTech and UMR G-EAU. Her background education and professional experience is engineering for water and sanitation utilities. She has been a State engineer since 2002.

Klaas Schwartz is Professor Water Services Governance at IHE Delft and Professor Water Services Governance with the Faculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences at the University of Amsterdam.

This research paper provide a synthesis of how the French Water System is governed.

The case study of moving Montpellier’s water back into public ownership. goes here