This paper formulates and estimates a household-level, billing-cycle water demand model under increasing block prices … household demographics in the utility's service territory to recover the impact of these factors on water demand. An index of … models are used to compute the distribution of utility-level water demand and revenues for any possible price schedule …

have spent nearly $5 trillion ($2017) to provide clean rivers, lakes, and drinking water, or annual spending of 0.8 percent … of U.S. GDP in most years. Yet over half of rivers and substantial shares of drinking water systems violate standards …, and polls for decades have listed water pollution as Americans' number one environmental concern. We assess the history …

The Clean Water Act (CWA) significantly improved surface water quality, but at a cost exceeding the estimated benefits …

The quality and inequality of US drinking water investments have gained attention after recent environmental disasters … Drinking Water Act with the targeting of congressional drinking water earmarks ("pork barrel" spending). Earmarks are often …, Hispanic, and low-income communities, partly due to targeting water systems serving large populations. Earmark and loan …