Public water utilities have increasingly turned to increasing block rate price structures to reduce water consumption … and signal the high environmental costs of water supply. Hsu evaluates the impact of a new and substantially higher price … those who consume very high quantities of water. The public water utility in Seattle added such a rate to its existing price …

that influence water policy. In the pages of this report we document the first steps toward developing a specialized … law, each of which influence the supply and demand for water. Specifically, these systems, their associated processes, and … Dispute Resolution (CADRe). The Center's mission is to manage water conflict through the application of computer …

agricultural, urban, and environmental uses of federal water. The Central Valley Project Improvement Act, composed of multiple … revenue functions and urban water demand functions are incorporated into a nonlinear programming model designed to predict … changes in water use, returns to agriculture, and urban consumer surplus. Results suggest that analysis that does not …

This research focuses on urban water policy. The three papers extend the literature through economic application …, taking theory in a direction that informs water resource managers on optimal decision-making or a better approach to … stock, water policy, and the size of the customer base served. Second, optimally managed, optimally priced urban groundwater …

In most urban cities across Australia, water restrictions remain the dominant policymechanism to restrict urban water … consumption. The extensive adoption of waterrestrictions over several years means that Australian urban water prices have … consistently not reflected the opportunity cost of water (Edwards 2008). Given the generally strongpolitical support for water …

Of water withdrawn for agricultural crop irrigation, a portion is consumed and the remainder comes back to the … hydrologic system as return flows. Previous models of irrigation water demand have mostly focused on the change in withdrawals in … planning. This study develops a simulation/mathematical programming model of water demand representing an irrigation company in …

additional research. The policies that once directly and indirectly encouraged drainage of wetlands as well as water use and … waters, and water quality improvements would provide a better basis for determining how much society should invest in …

A water-crop simulation/mathematical programming model of irrigation water demand in northeastern Colorado is … formulated to develop an original concept of derived demand for consumptive use of water. Conventional demand functions for water … impacts on basin-wide water consumption and would not make much additional water available for emerging demands. …

''hell or high water'' power purchase contract wherein the utility makes payments even when no power is being produced, or an …