Britta Ammermüller (née Pielen) completed a master’s degree in International Economic Studies at Maastricht University. She joined the Ecologic Institute at Berlin in 2002. Her work focused on the role of economic instruments in water resources management and the implementation of the EU Water Framework Directive. From 2004 to 2008 she taught and worked as a scientific researcher at the Institute of Infrastructure and Resources Management at Leipzig University. In 2008, she joined the German Association of Local Utilities (VKU) at Berlin as a policy officer in the department Water/Wastewater.

• Contents: Theoretical considerations on cost recovery and pricing of water services – Methodology for a comparative assessment of cost recovery in line with WFD Article 9 – Illustrative cases: testing the methodological framework.