demand management in the face of resource scarcity using the case of Nairobi city water services. The paper starts by first … recommendations to the city utility on a novel approach for price-based demand management of scarce water resources. Three key … consumption and demand. Research shows that most urban households don't know the price they pay for water since it makes a very …

Global warming, while increasing human demand for water, is reducing water availability by reducing runoff flows and …-related policies at every stage of the water interrelationship. This study investigated the relationship between water demand across … finds that economic growth and population expansion increases the demand for water in all aspects. These findings have …

water under increasing block-rate tariffs and empirically assess its effect on aggregate demand and inter-farm allocation … prices in 185 Israeli agricultural communities in the period 1992-1997, we estimate water demand elasticity at -0.3 in the …In this article we adapt Burtless and Hausman's (1978) methodology in order to estimate farmers' demand for irrigation …

Residential water demand has been extensively studied, with the impact of various household characteristics on … involves two main steps: first, the estimation of a Stone-Geary demand function for water consumption for both women and men …. Additionally, we observe that the demand for water is more inelastic among women, and their level of conditional use threshold is …