%0 Journal Article %T Desempenho dos diferentes modelos institucionais de presta£¿£¿o dos servi£¿os p¨²blicos de abastecimento de ¨¢gua: uma avalia£¿£¿o comparativa no conjunto dos munic¨ªpios brasileiros %A Heller %A Pedro Gasparini Barbosa %A Nascimento %A Nilo de Oliveira %A Heller %A L¨¦o %A Mingoti %A Sueli Aparecida %J Engenharia Sanitaria e Ambiental %D 2012 %I Brazilian Association of Sanitary and Environmental Engineering %R 10.1590/S1413-41522012000300010 %X this paper presents a comparative assessment of the different institutional public models for water supply provision in brazil. in an encompassing way, the study compares services of almost all brazilian municipalities, by a nonparametric analysis of variance. for this assessment, services were grouped according to the following classification: managed by the municipality; managed by a municipal autarchy; private companies; and regional models. the base year of the study was 2008, and secondary data from the national survey of basic sanitation were used. a set of performance indicators, related to operational and management aspects of services, was created. the results indicate significant differences between the evaluated models. %K water supply %K provision %K national survey of basic sanitation - pnsb %K indicators. %U http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_abstract&pid=S1413-41522012000300010&lng=en&nrm=iso&tlng=en