The case study conducted in this paper looks at residential water pricing from three different points of view. It first describes existing urban water-pricing practices in Southern France, emphasizing that pricing is not yet being used as a tool for providing economic incentives to save water....

Using primary data collected at the national and local levels in France, this paper shows how water price increase, initially intended to generate environmental benefits through reducing water use, has produced economic incentives for households to drill their own garden boreholes. The paper...

Cet article s'intéresse aux enjeux de justice sociale soulevés par la mise en place de systèmes de quotas pour réguler l'exploitation des eaux souterraines. Il aborde plus particulièrement la question de la justice distributive en s'interrogeant sur les principes éthiques sur lesquels...

The use of cost-benefit analysis (CBA) is increasingly advocated as a tool for supporting water planning decisions, in particular at the local (site) level. This paper questions whether CBA is relevant for evaluating groundwater management options at the scale of large regional aquifers. It...