Measuring Fairness: Assessing the equity of municipal water rates

Teodoro, Manuel P.

doi:10.1002/j.1551-8833.2005.tb10869.x

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“…At least three major themes have emerged in the literature. First, water affordability is a contingent and contested social construct, not an objective measure (Mack & Wrase, 2017;Sawkins & Dickie, 2005;Teodoro, 2005Teodoro, , 2018Teodoro, , 2019. In high-income countries, we lack a full understanding of affordability challenges and experiences across populations.…”

Section: Myth 3: Water Is Affordablementioning

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Exposing the myths of household water insecurity in the global north: A critical review

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Safe and secure water is a cornerstone of modern life in the global North. This article critically examines a set of prevalent myths about household water in high-income countries, with a focus on Canada and the United States. Taking a relational approach, we argue that household water insecurity is a product of institutionalized structures and power, manifests unevenly through space and time, and is reproduced in places we tend to assume are the most water-secure in the world. We first briefly introduce "modern water" and the modern infrastructural ideal, a highly influential set of ideas that have shaped household water provision and infrastructure development over the past two centuries. Against this backdrop, we consolidate evidence to disrupt a set of narratives about water in high-income countries: the notion that water access is universal, clean, affordable, trustworthy, and uniformly or equitably governed. We identify five thematic areas of future research to delineate an agenda for advancing scholarship and actionincluding challenges of legal and regulatory regimes, the housing-water nexus, water affordability, and water quality and contamination. Data gaps underpin the experiences of household water insecurity. Taken together, our review of water security for households in high-income countries provides a conceptual map to direct critical research in this area for the coming years.

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Section: Myth 3: Water Is Affordablementioning

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Exposing the myths of household water insecurity in the global north: A critical review

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“…Like many other environmental policies, public utility rates have important redistributional consequences, for rate designs necessarily affect the allocation of costs and benefits among customers (Berry 1979;Mullin 2008;Teodoro 2005;Timmins 2002). Utility rates collect revenue as necessary to meet a utility's operating and capital needs.…”

Section: Conservation Water Ratesmentioning

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Contingent Professionalism: Bureaucratic Mobility and the Adoption of Water Conservation Rates

Teodoro

2009

Journal of Public Administration Research and Theory

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Professional networks are widely recognized as important sources of environmental protection policy innovation. I argue that innovations are most likely to diffuse from professions to governments under conditions of bureaucratic job mobility. When an agency head arrives from outside the government he serves, she carries both a reputation and mandate for innovation. The incentives for innovation are less potent when an agency head is promoted from within. The result is mobility-contingent professionalism, for the priorities of an administrator's profession are more likely to become manifest in policy when she arrives from outside than when she is promoted from within an agency. Analysis of data from an original survey of water utility executives tests the effect of career path and professional involvement on utilities' adoption of conservation-oriented water rate structures. I find that executive career path is a strong predictor of an agency's adoption of conservation rates, even after accounting for climatic and institutional conditions. Further, the effect of professional involvement is contingent on career path: Professionalism is strongly associated with adoption of conservation rates for diagonally mobile executives but not for executives promoted from within.

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“…At the country or basin scale, multiple measures exist to identify thresholds for water‐related risk in terms of hazard, vulnerability, and exposure of water insecurity . At the household level, single‐variable indicators, such as census data on household plumbing infrastructure, the basic water requirement, and affordability assessments, offer only proxies metrics of single characteristics that contribute to overall water insecurity . While helpful, these proximate indicators of an individual water‐related characteristic limit our ability to assess the multiple dimensions of water insecurity at the individual and household scale.…”

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Progress in household water insecurity metrics: a cross‐disciplinary approach

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Despite the central importance of water for human wellbeing and development, researchers and practitioners have few tools to quantitatively measure, assess, and compare the scope and scale of household and individual water insecurity across cultural and climatic variations. There are multiple definitions of water insecurity, and the analytical tools for measuring household-level water insecurity are in their infancy. This paper provides an overview and systematic evaluation of current household and individual water in security metrics for human development. We seek to advance micro-level metrics-attending to the considerations of dimensionality, temporality, unit of analysis, and comparabilitybecause they will provide the research community with necessary tools to untangle the complex determinants and outcomes of water insecurity. Moreover, such metrics will support the translation of research outcomes into meaningful and useful products and results for stakeholders, communities, and decision-makers.

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Measuring Fairness: Assessing the equity of municipal water rates

Cited by 18 publications

References 11 publications

Exposing the myths of household water insecurity in the global north: A critical review

Exposing the myths of household water insecurity in the global north: A critical review

Contingent Professionalism: Bureaucratic Mobility and the Adoption of Water Conservation Rates

Progress in household water insecurity metrics: a cross‐disciplinary approach

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