This paper provides new evidence on how effectively piped water consumption subsidies are targeting poor households in … goal of improving the accessibility and affordability of piped water for poor households. Instead, the majority of … segments typically face challenges in accessing and connecting to piped water services. The paper also reveals shortcomings in …

urban areas is having a significant impact on the quantity and quality of water available as inputs into the production and … consumption process, as well as the ability of the water system to absorb and neutralize the waste byproducts deposited into it …. Water shortages are most severe in the north of the country, where surface water diversion is excessive and groundwater is …

likely to be more successful in the electricity sector than in the water sector because the correlation between consumption … and income is much stronger in the case of electricity than water. Moreover, IBT structures in electricity tend to be much … better designed than in the case of water, with lower fixed charges, lower subsistence blocks, and steeper gradients. A …

that poor households benefit disproportionately from water and electricity subsidies, that they are well-targeted to the … subsidies for water and electricity services. Their analysis of a wide range of subsidy models from around the developing world …

In determining domestic water prices, policy makers often need to use information about the demand side rather than … utilized to collect and analyze information about the acceptability of different water prices by different types of households …, as well as households'willingness to pay for water service improvement. The results obtained from these surveys can be …

This article examines the effect of water pricing policies on farmers? water saving behaviors, using original water … user group (WUG) data from a reservoir irrigation system in China. The introduction of volumetric water pricing at the … group level, to replace area-based pricing, induces institutional change to prevent each member?s overuse of water when the …

specified types of water and sanitation services in Nigeria. The analysis uses geo-located, population-representative data from … the National Water and Sanitation Survey 2015, along with relevant geo-spatial covariates. The model generates predictions … for levels of access to seven indicators of water and sanitation services across Nigeria at a resolution of 1?1 square …

context of irrigation schemes, this can create water scarcity even when there is sufficient water to meet the total … allocations. A randomized control trial compares two feedback tools: i) general information, charting the water requirements for … common crops, and ii) individualized information, comparing water requirements with each farmer's water use in the same …

nearly 1500 rural piped water customers in Vietnam reveal evidence of habit formation. A novel test based on the Euler …