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Assessing the impact of full cost recovery of water services on European households
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In this paper, the authors assess the impact of implementing the full cost recovery (FCR) principle for water services on European households and provide a measure of the resulting household welfare losses.About:
This article is published in Water Resources and Economics.The article was published on 2016-04-01. It has received 35 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Water industry & Water pricing.read more
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Evaluating the Welfare Effects of Reforming Municipal Water Prices. Proposed Running Head: Reforming Water Prices
TL;DR: In this article, a simulation program was used to compute the impact of seasonally differentiated water utility pricing on a representative water utility's output and deficit and upon aggregate consumer surplus of a move from its current practice to efficient prices, and the simulation results showed that a move to seasonal differentiated pricing (with an annual charge calculated to recoup the resulting deficit) raises aggregate surplus by approximately 4%.
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Government in the Republic of Cyprus : responding to the problems of water scarcity and quality
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors propose a method to solve the problem of "uniformity" and "uncertainty" in the context of video games.2.3.2
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Evaluating the Performance of Alternative Municipal Water Tariff Designs: Quantifying the Tradeoffs between Equity, Economic Efficiency, and Cost Recovery
Céline Nauges,Dale Whittington +1 more
TL;DR: In this article, the authors analyzed how the shift from a uniform volumetric tariff to different increasing block tariff (IBT) designs affects households' water use and water bills and how these changes in turn affect measures of equity and economic efficiency for two different financial self-sufficiency targets.
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Exposing the myths of household water insecurity in the global north: A critical review
Katie Meehan,Wendy Jepson,Leila M. Harris,Amber Wutich,Melissa Beresford,Amanda Fencl,Jonathan London,Gregory Pierce,Lucero Radonic,Christian Wells,Nicole J. Wilson,Ellis Adjei Adams,Rachel Arsenault,Alexandra Brewis,Victoria Harrington,Yanna Lambrinidou,Deborah McGregor,Robert J. Patrick,Benjamin J. Pauli,Amber L. Pearson,Sameer H. Shah,Dacotah Splichalova,Cassandra L. Workman,Sera L. Young +23 more
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Servant of too many masters: Residential water pricing and the challenge of sustainability
TL;DR: Water pricing lays at the crossroads of many fields of economic analysis, and may be used to address many different problems: efficient allocation of water resources, ecological sustainability, guarantee of social rights, financial viability of investments as discussed by the authors.
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Exact Consumer's Surplus and Deadweight Loss
TL;DR: In this paper, it was shown that for the case of a single price change, which is also the situation in which consumer's surplus is often used in applied work, no approximation is necessary.
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UNDP, 2006, beyond Scarcity: Power, Poverty and Global Water Circes Human Development Report
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Urbanisation and Water Consumption: Influencing Factors in the Metropolitan Region of Barcelona:
Elena Domene,David Saurí +1 more
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors investigated the influence of certain demographic, behavioural and housing factors on residential water consumption using descriptive statistics and a regression analysis, finding that income, housing type, members per household, the presence of outdoor uses (garden and swimming pool), the kind of species planted in the garden and consumer behaviour towards conservation practices play a significant role in explaining variations in water consumption.
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Determinants of residential water demand in Germany
TL;DR: In this article, the authors analyzed the impact of several economic, environmental and social determinants for the per capita demand for water in about 600 water supply areas in Germany and found that household size and the share of wells have a negative impact on per capita water demand and water use increases with age.
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Determinants of residential water consumption: Evidence and analysis from a 10-country household survey
TL;DR: In this paper, the importance of price and non-price factors on residential water demand and the average volumetric price of water was investigated for 10 countries and found that the average VOLUMEUME 7, 2019 price is an important predictor of differences in residential consumption in models that include household characteristics, water saving devices, attitudinal characteristics and environmental concerns as explanatory variables.
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