Water management have been plagued by the problem of determining its price. The purpose of this paper is to provide a … financial based approach for the implied price of water shortfall. To do so, we consider the price of municipalities' contracts … for external water supplies (such as supply from desalination plants, acquisition of water from other sources etc.). The …

The effectiveness of price as a water conservation measure remains an open empirical issue and relevant policy question …. We conduct a meta-regression analysis that summarizes 615 estimates of the price elasticity of residential water demand … out location and community traits that boost or depress the price elasticity of residents. Our results reveal that water …

Water is an increasingly scarce resource. It is often distributed such that consumers do not face any marginal cost of … water at zero marginal cost. Using high-frequency data over many years, we analyze how the introduction of apartment …-level metering and billing (IMB) affects hot water consumption. We find that introducing a marginal cost, reflecting the market price …