Nai Rui Chng2013-03-072013-03-072011http://hdl.handle.net/10625/50796The paper examines how water service provisioning is dominated by local and sectoral political and economic elites in Metro Manila (Philippines). The inability and/or unwillingness of privatized water utilities to provide direct service delivery to the urban poor has reaffirmed the importance of the informal sector in small-scale water provisioning. In the Philippines, informal water vendors exist within an ‘archipelagic’ regulatory space that is both informally and formally regulated, locally legitimatized, and sometimes straddle the boundaries of legality.1 digital file (28 p. : ill.)application/pdfenINFORMAL SECTORDRINKING WATERACCESS TO WATERWATER MANAGEMENTURBAN POORREGULATIONPUBLIC UTILITIESADMINISTRATIVE LAWMUNICIPALITIESGOVERNANCEPHILIPPINESFAR EAST ASIAWorking Paper