This paper aims at characterizing water demand by Brazilian manufacturing plants located in São Paulo and at assessing the potential impacts of environmental policies on industrial water use. We first show that the price elasticity of the water demand, -1.0 on average, is high enough for a...

This paper reports an investigation of the impact of price policies (PP) and non-price policies (NPP) on residential water demand. Using a sample of US water utilities located in Wisconsin, residential water demand was estimated by taking into account the fact that some of the characteristics of...

[fre] Les problèmes d'intrusion d'eau salée dans les aquiferes côtiers constituent aujourd'hui l'une des principales causes de détérioration de la qualité de leurs eaux. L'eau de mer, plus dense que l'eau douce, envahit ces aquiferes dès que les prélèvements sont suffisamment intenses...

[eng] The purpose of this article is to measure the effects of delegating French water utilities to the private sector, on residential water price. We apply a treatment effects approach to a sample of 3.782 French local communities. Our results show that a significant share of the price...