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 Clean Water Act (CWA) significantly improved surface water quality, but at a cost exceeding the estimated benefits …. We quantify the effect of the CWA on a direct measure of health. Using a difference-in-differences framework, we compare …

Poor water quality and sanitation are leading causes of mortality and disease in developing countries. However …, interventions providing toilets in rural areas have not substantially improved health, likely because of incomplete coverage and low … usage. This paper estimates the impact of an integrated water and sanitation improvement program in rural India that …

’s water and sanitation utility to improve revenue collection efficiency and last mile connection loan repayment: (i) face …, we find large effects of enforcement on payment. We also find no effect on access to water, perceptions of utility …

affected public health by pairing annual mortality data for over 600 registration districts, spanning 1869 to 1910, with …

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 …

investment. This paper uses a randomized evaluation in Kenya to measure the health impacts of investments to improve source water … impacts of alternative water property rights norms and institutions, including common property, freehold private property, and … are much smaller than levels implied by health planners' typical valuations of child mortality, consistent with models in …

Beginning around 1880, public health issues and engineering advances spurred the installation of city water and sewer … systems. As part of this growth, many cities chose to use lead service pipes to connect residences to city water systems. This … where lead service pipes were used to deliver water. Because the effect of lead pipes depended on the acidity and hardness …

Urban water conservation is typically achieved through prescriptive regulations, including the rationing of water for …-based and prescriptive approaches to water conservation, where prices have rarely been used to allocate scarce supplies. The … analysis emphasizes the emerging theoretical and empirical evidence that using prices to manage water demand is more cost …

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 …