Providing clean water requires maintenance, as well as the initial connections that are typically measured. Frequently …, the water supply fails in the developing world, especially when users don't pay the marginal cost of water. This paper … uses the timing of frequent, unexpected water service outages in Lusaka, Zambia to identify the short-term impacts of piped …

The paper provides an integrated framework to assess water markets in terms of their institutional underpinnings and … the three 'pillars' of integrated water resource management: economic efficiency, equity and environmental sustainability …. This framework can be used: (1) to benchmark different water markets; (2) to track performance over time; and (3) to …

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 …

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 …

This study evaluates two interventions for residential water conservation. Comparing households across an enforcement … substantial water conservation but also shift some consumption from regulated to unregulated hours within the week. In contrast …, we show using data from a randomized experiment with the same customers that normative Home Water Reports reduce water …

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 …

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 …

property rights. We apply this estimator to a major aquifer in water-scarce southern California and find that the introduction … of ground- water property rights generated substantial net benefits, as capitalized in land values. Heterogeneity … analyses suggest gains arise in part from tradeability of these rights, which enables more efficient water use …

Fresh water supplies increasingly are under stress in many parts of the world due to rising populations, higher per … capita incomes and corresponding consumption, greater environmental concerns, and the effects of climate change. Water rights … and markets are part of the institutional menus for responding to these problems. We examine water markets in both …