The purpose of this paper is to measure the short- and long-run effect ofthe price of water on residential water use …. Unit root tests reveal that water use series and series of other variables affecting use are non-stationary. However, a … long-run co-integrating relationship is found in the demand model, which makes possible to obtain a partial correction term …

and cross boarder trade in the piped water market. We argue that due to the specific circumstances in the water sector … networks could alternatively be used for cross boarder trade between neighboured water utilities. We show that competition by …

Due to the increasing discussion about liberalisation in the piped water industry municipal authorities in several … European countries consider modifications of their water utilities’ structure such as legal constitution, business objectives … water utilities as welfare or profit maximising companies when assuming the introduction of competition in the market based …

This paper reports on the construction of an International Water Poverty Index, part of the first phase of a research … project into building a locally based version of the index. The purpose of the Water Poverty Index is to express an … interdisciplinary measure which links household welfare with water availability and indicates the degree to which water scarcity impacts …

There are significant differences in the way water rights are defined, allocated and administered in Australia and … overseas. This paper includes comparisons of the arrangements for managing water rights against accepted best practice …

of the elasticity of demand for irrigation water. It focuses on three main irrigated industries — rice, dairy and …This working paper was released in August 2004. This research is part of a suite of research related to water reform …, including the effects of expanding water trade and the management of environmental externalities associated with the supply and …