Providing clean water requires maintenance, as well as the initial connections that are typically measured. Frequently …, the water supply fails in the developing world, especially when users don't pay the marginal cost of water. This paper … uses the timing of frequent, unexpected water service outages in Lusaka, Zambia to identify the short-term impacts of piped …

The paper provides an integrated framework to assess water markets in terms of their institutional underpinnings and … the three 'pillars' of integrated water resource management: economic efficiency, equity and environmental sustainability …. This framework can be used: (1) to benchmark different water markets; (2) to track performance over time; and (3) to …

and water and (ii) explore the adoption of energy saving technologies. Viewed in its totality, this work suggests that … influence the use of energy and water. For academics, the studies reviewed provide a deeper understanding of individual behavior … blueprint outlining ways to combine insights from neo-classical and behavioral economics to manage energy/water demand and …

This paper formulates and estimates a household-level, billing-cycle water demand model under increasing block prices … household demographics in the utility's service territory to recover the impact of these factors on water demand. An index of … models are used to compute the distribution of utility-level water demand and revenues for any possible price schedule …

Rather than allowing water prices to reflect scarcity rents during periods of drought-induced excess demand, policy … unique panel data on residential end-uses of water, we examine the welfare implications of typical drought policies. Using … policies target water uses that households, themselves, are most willing to forgo. Nevertheless, we find that use restrictions …

more efficient water usage in the production of four California agricultural products. We implement an internet survey … choice experiment for avocados, almonds, lettuce, and tomatoes to elicit consumer valuation for water efficiency via revealed … method (conventional or organic), and water usage (average or efficient). Varying the attribute space presented to consumers …

infrastructure and institutions. Providing clean water and removing refuse requires water and sewer pipes, but the urban poor are … the water and sewer system. In nineteenth-century New York, subsidies also proved insufficient and were largely replaced …

Katharine Coman's "Some Unsettled Problems of Irrigation," published in March 1911 in the first issue of the American … Economic Review addressed issues of water supply, rights, and organization. These same issues have relevance today 100 years … later in face of growing concern about the availability of fresh water worldwide as demand grows and as supplies become more …

The Clean Water Act (CWA) significantly improved surface water quality, but at a cost exceeding the estimated benefits …

Between 1905 and 1934 over 869 farmers in Owens Valley, California sold their land and associated water rights to Los … Angeles, 250 miles to the southwest. This agriculture-to-urban water transfer increased Los Angeles' water supply by over 4 … took water from a marginal agricultural area and transferred it via the Los Angeles Aqueduct. No other sources of water …