This paper presents a meta-analysis of variations in price and income elasticities of residential water demand … policy-making. It is also crucial for effective water demand management. We focus on theapplication of statistical methods to … empirical estimates of the price and income elasticity ofresidential water demand vary to such considerable extents. The set of …

In the Czech Republic, water prices have been steadily increasing while water consumption has been decreasing during … the last decades. A great deal of literature is devoted to the price elasticity of water demand but to the best of our …-run price elasticities of water demand in the Czech Republic between years 2000 and 2011. We find that the water demand is …

When consumption of water and other utilities is measured collectively and payment for such services is equally shared … installation of individual meters affects water consumption. Using rich administrative data from the public water utility company … in Quito, Ecuador, it is estimated that water consumption decreases by about 8% as a result of the introduction of …

We present the first meta-analysis of the income elasticity of water demand that accounts for the effects of … using Bayesian model averaging to account for model uncertainty. The differences in the reported estimates are …

This study investigates the water demand of Indian manufacturing plants. It adopts an input distance function approach … information concerning substitutability and the shadow price of water. The model is estimated, using linear programming approach …, on a sample of 92 firms over the three years. The results show that the average shadow price of water is rupees 7.21 per …

We estimate the price elasticity of water demand with household-level data, structurally modeling the piecewise … water utility service areas …

We present empirical evidence on the determinants of residential water demand for one Italian region, Emilia …-Romagna, by using municipal panel data. The estimated water demand price elasticity is negative, showing values between -0.99 and … with the higher level of Regional water prices compared to the national average. The applied analysis is an important …

Germany's water supply industry is characterized by a multitude of utilities and widely diverging prices, possibly … based on cross-sectional data from 373 public and private water utilities in 2006. We find large differences in technical … water losses. -- Water Supply ; Technical Efficiency ; Data Envelopment Analysis ; Stochastic Frontier Analysis ; Structural …