Modeling Residential Water Consumption in Amman: The Role of Intermittency, Storage, and Pricing for Piped and Tanker Water

Klassert, Christian; Sigel, Katja; Gawel, Erik; Klauer, Bernd; Ghisi, Enedir

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“…In Argentina, water privatization that had subsidies for the poor and allowed for profit and service shut-off for non-payments and led to better service for the poor [142]. These can including restructuring water tariffs, awareness programs, or a phase-out of agricultural subsidies [67]. Wutich et al [126] examine ways that the informal water distribution economy can contribute to advancing the human right for water.…”

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Intermittent Domestic Water Supply: A Critical Review and Analysis of Causal-Consequential Pathways

Galaitsi

Russell

Bishara

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Water

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Communities in many parts of the world, especially in developing countries, face obstacles in supplying continuous water to household consumers. Authorities often cite water scarcity as the cause, but we demonstrate that environmental constraints constitute only one aspect of a multi-dimensional problem. By asking what causes intermittent domestic water supply, this literature review (129 articles) identifies 47 conditions of intermittent systems and the causal-consequential pathways between them that can reinforce intermittency. These pathways span several disciplines including engineering, government administration and anthropology, and when viewed together they (1) emphasize the human drivers of intermittency; (2) suggest generalized interventions; and (3) reveal a gap in the literature in terms of meaningful categorizations of the reliability of intermittent supplies. Based on the reliability of consumers' water access, we propose three categories of intermittency-predictable, irregular, and unreliable-to facilitate comparisons between case studies and transfers of solutions.

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Intermittent Domestic Water Supply: A Critical Review and Analysis of Causal-Consequential Pathways

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“…The value for low income households is just on the verge of exceeding the CAR-threshold of 3-5% used by the World Bank [36]. Furthermore, surveys and simulation analyses show that low-income households spend additional money on bottled water and water ordered from tanker trucks, further increasing their water expenditure [26,28,54]. This is also underscored by the relatively small difference in average revenue between high-income and low-income households, which pay on average 0.37 JD/m 3 and 0.32 JD/m 3 , respectively, implying a relatively low degree of cross-subsidization.…”

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“…An evaluation of the main source of bulk water in HEIS 2013 shows that only 2.6% of households mainly rely on sources other than the piped network for their bulk water needs, such as supply by tanker trucks, wells, or rainwater harvesting, [53]. While especially tanker trucks serve an important role in balancing shortages in the piped water supply network [54], this high percentage of households mainly using piped water implies that the results found here likely capture not only residential piped water demand quite well but also overall residential water demand.…”

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Increasing Block Tariffs in an Arid Developing Country: A Discrete/Continuous Choice Model of Residential Water Demand in Jordan

Klassert

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Klauer

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Arid developing countries face growing challenges from water scarcity, which are exacerbated by deficient piped water supply infrastructures. Increasing block tariffs (IBTs), charging higher rates with increasing water consumption, can potentially reconcile cost recovery to finance these infrastructures with an equitable and affordable sharing of the cost burden. A firm understanding of the impacts of varying prices and socio-economic conditions on residential water demand is necessary for designing IBTs that promote these objectives. Consistently estimating water demand under an IBT requires a discrete/continuous choice (DCC) model. Despite this, few econometric studies of arid developing countries have applied this state-of-the-art approach. This paper applies a DCC model to estimate residential water demand under IBTs in the severely water-stressed country of Jordan, using 15,811 country-wide household-level observations from five years up to 2013. We extend Hewitt and Hanemann's original DCC formulation in order to accommodate IBTs featuring a linearly progressive tariff block. We then use the resulting demand function to assess Jordan's 2013 IBTs and alternative IBT designs. Under the estimated price elasticities, very few IBT designs achieve a full recovery of the financial costs of water provision, but we still identify a potential to improve cost recovery and affordability.

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“…For instance, attempts to decrease residential water consumption require not only technological advances (Lee et al 2013) but also the awareness and acceptance of such innovations, suitable tariff structures, as well as the economic efficiency and affordability of water services (Klassert et al 2015).…”

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Urban Transformations

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Future City DescriptionAs of 2008, for the first time in human history, half of the world's population now live in cities. And with concerns about issues such as climate change, energy supply and environmental health receiving increasing political attention, interest in the sustainable development of our future cities has grown dramatically.Yet despite a wealth of literature on green architecture, evidence-based design and sustainable planning, only a fraction of the current literature successfully integrates the necessary theory and practice from across the full range of relevant disciplines.Springer's Future City series combines expertise from designers, and from natural and social scientists, to discuss the wide range of issues facing the architects, planners, developers and inhabitants of the world's future cities. Its aim is to encourage the integration of ecological theory into the aesthetic, social and practical realities of contemporary urban development. This work is subject to copyright. All rights are reserved by the Publisher, whether the whole or part of the material is concerned, specifically the rights of translation, reprinting, reuse of illustrations, recitation, broadcasting, reproduction on microfilms or in any other physical way, and transmission or information storage and retrieval, electronic adaptation, computer software, or by similar or dissimilar methodology now known or hereafter developed. The use of general descriptive names, registered names, trademarks, service marks, etc. in this publication does not imply, even in the absence of a specific statement, that such names are exempt from the relevant protective laws and regulations and therefore free for general use. The publisher, the authors and the editors are safe to assume that the advice and information in this book are believed to be true and accurate at the date of publication. Neither the publisher nor the authors or the editors give a warranty, express or implied, with respect to the material contained herein or for any errors or omissions that may have been made. The publisher remains neutral with regard to jurisdictional claims in published maps and institutional affiliations.Printed on acid-free paper ForewordThis volume is dedicated to the topic "Urban Transformations: Sustainable Urban Development Through Resource Efficiency, Quality of Life and Resilience". After the Habitat III conference and the adoption of the New Urban Agenda, the question of how to tackle the challenges in terms of transforming our cities in a sustainable direction is more urgent than ever. We need to think about appropriate instruments, strategies and mechanisms and have to consider adequate governance patterns, existing power constellations and the inclusion of the civil society.Our responsibility, as scientists, is to provide an interdisciplinary framework for understanding urban transformations that can serve as a reference not only for professionals in many of the disciplines involved in this volume but also for those involved in policymaking...

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Modeling Residential Water Consumption in Amman: The Role of Intermittency, Storage, and Pricing for Piped and Tanker Water

Cited by 39 publications

References 22 publications

Intermittent Domestic Water Supply: A Critical Review and Analysis of Causal-Consequential Pathways

Intermittent Domestic Water Supply: A Critical Review and Analysis of Causal-Consequential Pathways

Increasing Block Tariffs in an Arid Developing Country: A Discrete/Continuous Choice Model of Residential Water Demand in Jordan

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