Increases in water demand due to population growth, industrial development and urbanization necessitate economically … efficient use of water resources worldwide. This is particularly true in the dryland zones of the world relying on irrigated … agriculture for economic development such as in Uzbekistan, Central Asia. Due to ill-managed water resources and the dominance of …

The current Water Abstraction License (WAL) regime in Italy is no longer flexible enough to cope with the challenges … of bottom-up conflict resolution mechanisms at a basin scale; a water pricing scheme that does not reflect the cost of … water conveyance and use, and does not encourage efficient water allocation; and the lack of a central WAL register, which …

We study adoption by more than 150,000 households of an optional transitional water tariff implemented in the South …

We study adoption by more than 150,000 households of an optional transitional water tariff implemented in the South …

This paper econometrically estimates residential water consumption in Germany between 2007 and 2013 based on a panel of … almost 3000 supply areas. In particular, the analysis distinguishes periods of rising and falling water and sewage water … prices. The short-run (long-run) price elasticity is estimated at around 4.2% (13%), but water demand appears to respond …

We develop a framework to analyze urban water tariff setting and its welfare implications and apply it to a panel of … cities in the People's Republic of China in the 2000s. First, we find that peer cities' water tariff levels have a … estimate water demand functions, which yields elasticity estimates of around − 0.41 for both residential and industrial sectors …