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 water charge to act as an effective policy tool for reducing water …

This paper examines the factors influencing water reuse in manufacturing firms and analyzes whether the structure of … intake water demand differs between firms that adopt water reuse practices and those which do not. To this purpose, we …. The first stage applies a probit model for the water reuse decision and the second stage employs an endogenous switching …

three-state least squares on a sample of 404 industrial establishments located in the state of Sao Paulo, Brazil. We show …

The current Water Abstraction License (WAL) regime in Italy is no longer flexible enough to cope with the challenges … of bottom-up conflict resolution mechanisms at a basin scale; a water pricing scheme that does not reflect the cost of … water conveyance and use, and does not encourage efficient water allocation; and the lack of a central WAL register, which …

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 …

When consumption of water and other utilities is measured collectively and payment for such services is equally shared … installation of individual meters affects water consumption. Using rich administrative data from the public water utility company … in Quito, Ecuador, it is estimated that water consumption decreases by about 8% as a result of the introduction of …