Water Pricing Policy as Tool to Induce Efficiency in Water Resources Management
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Título: | Water Pricing Policy as Tool to Induce Efficiency in Water Resources Management |
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Autor/es: | García-López, Marcos | Montaño, Borja | Melgarejo, Joaquín |
Grupo/s de investigación o GITE: | Recursos Hídricos y Desarrollo Sostenible | Historia e Instituciones Económicas (HIE) |
Centro, Departamento o Servicio: | Universidad de Alicante. Departamento de Análisis Económico Aplicado | Universidad de Alicante. Instituto Universitario del Agua y las Ciencias Ambientales |
Palabras clave: | Water pricing | Household budget | Household structure | Price elasticity | Public health | Wastewater treatment |
Área/s de conocimiento: | Historia e Instituciones Económicas |
Fecha de publicación: | 18-may-2020 |
Editor: | MDPI |
Cita bibliográfica: | García-López M, Montano B, Melgarejo J. Water Pricing Policy as Tool to Induce Efficiency in Water Resources Management. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health. 2020; 17(10):3534. doi:10.3390/ijerph17103534 |
Resumen: | This research seeks to determine and analyze the reaction to an increase in the water invoice with the aim of introducing improvements in wastewater treatments. To this end, the purification situation is analyzed and the price elasticities of demand are obtained through Ordinary Minimum Squares. The results show that there are several small noncompliant treatment plants, as well as a complex interaction among consumption, price, and income. In many cases, the results offer small or significant differences without a clear pattern. However, it highlights the number of household members as it is strongly related to consumption and price and not considering it in the elaboration or modification of the water tariff would lead to inefficiencies. A reduction in revenue has also been found due to the strong consumer reaction, so it is necessary to assess in more depth what kind of price change would be most appropriate, as well as whether such measures would be best suited to address the problem. |
Patrocinador/es: | This research was financed by the Office of the Vice President of Research and Knowledge Transfer of the University of Alicante, Spain (Marcos García-López has a scholarship for The Training of University Teachers from the University of Alicante, UAFPU2019-16). |
URI: | http://hdl.handle.net/10045/106953 |
ISSN: | 1661-7827 (Print) | 1660-4601 (Online) |
DOI: | 10.3390/ijerph17103534 |
Idioma: | eng |
Tipo: | info:eu-repo/semantics/article |
Derechos: | © 2020 by the authors. Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). |
Revisión científica: | si |
Versión del editor: | https://doi.org/10.3390/ijerph17103534 |
Aparece en las colecciones: | INV - Historia e Instituciones Económicas - Artículos de Revistas INV - Recursos Hídricos y Desarrollo Sostenible - Artículos de Revistas |
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