Search Results - subject:"water demand"

Groundwater management and the cost of reduced surface water deliveries to urban areas: The case of the central and west coast basins of southern california

Sunding, David L.; Hamilton, Stephen F.; Ajami, Newsha K. - Department of Agricultural and Resource Economics, … - 2009

The Central and West Coast groundwater basins (“basins” or “Central and West Coast Basins”) are located in southern Los Angeles County. Groundwater produced from these basins provides approximately forty percent of the water supply for residents and businesses in all or parts of 43...

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Strategic Analyses of the National River Linking Project (NRLP) of India, Series 3. Promoting irrigation demand management in India: potentials, problems and prospects

Saleth, Rathinasamy Maria - International Water Management Institute (IWMI) - 2009

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Estimating Urban Residential Water-Demand With Increasing Block Prices: The Case of Perth, Western Australia

Xayavong, Vilaphonh; Burton, Michael; White, Benedict - 2008

2005. After deriving the consumer’s water demand under anon-linear budget constraint, we estimate the water demand model … water demand price elasticities are slightly higher (more elastic) thanprevious study in Perth, but broadly in line with …

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Does Marginal Price Matter? A Regression Discontinuity Approach to Estimating Water Demand

Nataraj, Shanthi; Hanemann, W. Michael - Department of Agricultural and Resource Economics, … - 2008

Although complex pricing schedules are increasingly common in utility billing, it is difficult to determine whether consumers respond to complicated marginal prices because price changes are often confounded with simultaneous demand shocks or non-price policies. To overcome this challenge, we...

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India’s water supply and demand from 2025-2050: business-as-usual scenario and issues

Amarasinghe, Upali A.; Shah, Tushaar; Anand, B. K. - International Water Management Institute (IWMI) - 2008

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Analysis of the Inter-basin Water Transfer Scheme in India: a case study of the Godavari-Krishna link

Bharati, Luna; Anand, B. K.; Smakhtin, Vladimir - International Water Management Institute (IWMI) - 2008

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Towards Urban Water Reform: A Discussion Paper

Commission, Productivity - Productivity Commission, Government of Australia - 2008

Most urban households face severe restrictions on their use of water. These impose hidden costs that could amount to billions of dollars each year. Australia’s urban water shortages are only partly due to low rainfall. An important contributor has been inadequate institutional arrangements for...

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Price-setting for Residential Water: Estimation of Water Demand in Lahore

Rauf, Tamkinat; Siddiqi, M. Wasif - In: The Pakistan Development Review 47 (2008) 4, pp. 893-906

explores the potential of a pricing policy to regulate residential water demand in order to achieve the objectives of cost … demand. The study finds water demand to be inelastic to price and, considering WASA’s exceedingly low tariffs, recommends up … equations emerges, solved here using two-stage least squares method. The estimated model explains 57 percent variation in water …

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Estimating Urban Residential Water-Demand With Increasing Block Prices: The Case of Perth, Western Australia

Xayavong, Vilaphonh; Burton, Michael P.; White, Benedict - Australian Agricultural and Resource Economics Society … - 2008

2005. After deriving the consumer’s water demand under a non-linear budget constraint, we estimate the water demand model … water demand price elasticities are slightly higher (more elastic) than previous study in Perth, but broadly in line with …

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Does marginal price matter? : A regression discontinuity approach to estimating water demand

Nataraj, Shanthi; Hanemann, W. Michael - Department of Agricultural and Resource Economics, … - 2008

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