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 …

understood. Yet, there is little evidence comparing the effectiveness of these instruments, especially when considering water … resource management. We exploit a rich panel of residential water consumption to examine heterogeneous responses to both price … to reduce consumption among households who generally are large consumers of water. However, prescriptive policies such as …

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

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 …

Many proposed surface water transfers undergo a series of regulatory reviews designed to mitigate hydrological and … trade. To promote a well-functioning market for surface water in California, we describe how a new kind of water right and … related regulatory practices can balance the trade-off between externalities and transaction costs, and how a Water Incentive …