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 …

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 …

The question non longer is if more competition should be introduced in the German water and sewerage sector. The issue …

Due to recent legislation, Benchmarking in the German water and sewerage sector will be introduced as widely as … those German benchmarking systems which are interrelated with the system of the International Water System are especially …

There is a lack of competition in the German water and sewerage sector. According to economic theory levels of service … levels of service. In analysing the internet pages of main German water and sewerage companies I exclusively work with those … existence of more competition in the English water and sewerage sector. …

We analyze the properties of progressive water tariffs that are often applied in the sector in the form of discretely … increasing block tariffs (IBT). We are particularly interested in water tarification in a poverty context where a subsistence … level of water has to be allocated to each household. Our approach is semi-welfarist to the extent that we analyze second …

We investigate girls' school dropout rates, bringing forward a novel variable: access to water. We hypothesise that a … girl's education suffers when her greater water need for female hygiene purposes after menarche is not met because her … household has poor access to water. For testing we use data from rural villages in the China Health and Nutrition Survey. We …

behavior. In Jerusalem, water bill due dates are randomly determined and therefore may occur just before or after social … security paydays. We compared the likelihood of late payments by low-income households when they receive their social benefits … a day after the water bill due date to the likelihood of late payment by the same households when they receive their …

close to and on both sides of the geographic boundary of piped water supply. Our work finds that access to piped water was … that suggest that it is not enough for a household to be connected to the water supply network, but that a minimum …