Barberán, Ramón; Arbués, Fernando - In: Water Resources Management 23 (2009) 10, pp. 2101-2118
. Therefore, rates design is frequently subject to normative criteria such as full cost recovery, efficiency, equity and … simplicity. This paper, proposes a method of ensuring the operational effectiveness of the equity criterion. Specifically, the … objective is to resolve the problem of equity caused by pricing systems involving stepwise increments in the cost of aggregate …