Hirschhausen, Christian R. von; Flekstad, Maya; Meran, Georg - In: DIW economic bulletin 7 (2017) 28/29, pp. 292-298
those set for the water sector. Despite progress, around 800 million people worldwide do not have adequate access to … drinking water. Increasing block tariffs are an instrument widely used to support access to drinking water for poorer segments … of the population. With this system, the price of water progressively increases with the volume consumed. An affordable …