THE EFFICIENCY OF WATER PRICING: A RATE OF RETURN ANALYSIS FOR MUNICIPAL WATER DEPARTMENTS<sup>1</sup>

Mercer, Lloyd J.; Morgan, W. Douglas

doi:10.1111/j.1752-1688.1986.tb01886.x

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“…In this vein, water is not considered a resource, but rather a “right” that deserves public subsidy. For this and other reasons, water agencies (both public and private) have experienced less than full‐cost recovery 13 and low rates of return on capital investments 14 …”

Section: Traditional Pricing Methods a Treadmillmentioning

confidence: 99%

Conservation rates in the real world

Chesnutt¹,

Beecher²

1998

Journal AWWA

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Conservation‐oriented rates that reflect the true price of water can change consumers' water use and pay off in reduced operating and development costs. Old and familiar ways of setting water rates can fail to recover the cost of providing water service, can send inaccurate signals as to the worth of this scarce resource, and are becoming more and more difficult to defend. At the same time, revenues from rates and charges are essential if water agencies are to accomplish their mission of providing dependable, potable water on demand. What can water utilities do to price water more sensibly, ensure financial viability, and achieve a publicly accepted and successful rate‐making process? The California Urban Water Conservation Council has developed a technical handbook on alternative pricing approaches and their associated effects. “Designing, Evaluating, and Implementing Conservation Rate Structures”1 demonstrates how quantitative tools can be used to measure rate effects, develop strategies for managing the results of rate changes, and provide insights about the process of successful rate‐making. By linking technical knowledge with practical implementation tools, rate‐making that incorporates conservation objectives can be accomplished.

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Section: Traditional Pricing Methods a Treadmillmentioning

confidence: 99%

Conservation rates in the real world

Chesnutt¹,

Beecher²

1998

Journal AWWA

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“…Kijne et al (1991) found that groundwater quality deteriorates towards the tail ends of distributary command areas, affecting crop yields. Mercer and Morgan (1986) discussed the challenges water suppliers face in pricing water to recover costs while maintaining political and administrative feasibility. Improving irrigation systems can alleviate poverty, as evidenced by NDA (1996) in South Africa.…”

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Precision Agriculture Technologies; The Socioeconomic Determinants Of The Canal Lining Adoption

Khan,

Hussain

2024

Migrat. Lett.

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Pakistan being an agricultural-based economy, needs to pull-out of the problems related to the agriculture sector. Irrigation system of Pakistan has leads to various seepage losses from the canals. The canal seepage leads to various problems including salinity and the waterlogging, ultimately devastate the land and its agriculture use. This study explores the causes of the water loss before the canal lining and its impact on the agriculture productivity, along with the[1] socioeconomic impact of the canal lining on the farmers and relevant respondents. The targeted area of the study was the agricultural zone of Faisalabad region of Punjab, Pakistan. Simple random sampling technique were utilized to collect the sample of 140 respondents. An amalgam of quantitative and qualitative sampling is adopted by relaying on surveys, interviews, observations and analysis of data. A descriptive analysis is conducted to analyze the data by using percentage and frequency method. The results indicate that the 46.4% respondents have 17-25 minutes per Acer of time allocated for canal water turn followed by 32.9% with 16 minutes allocated for canal water turn. Majority of respondents (47.1%) reported that water quality is improved after lining. Sixty-five percent view that the lining has reduce water logging to some extent, only 13.6% reported it ineffective. The 50.7% of total are concerned to some extent for water resources depletion while 31% to great extent. Majority (45% of respondents) report that canal lining is useless in preventing crops from the pest attack. 50.7% report that any industry exploits the canal while 49.3% said no industry use it. Majority reported that government policies are available for farmers (65.7%). It is indicated that there is significant relation between the farmer’s age & education and the assessment of the socio-economic impact of canal lining. Higher income also leads to higher assessment of the socioeconomic impact of lining. Thus, most of the farmers support the canal lining except few favoring the Kacha Warabandi system. Findings favor the socioeconomic factor and their role in defining the farmers’ behavior. Yet the effective planning, reducing conflicts, improving allocation and distribution can be helpful increasing capacity of the croplands and the sustain the agriculture sector equitably.

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“…In the late 1980th, with the worsening water crisis, many scholars began to consider using the economic lever in regulating contradictions of water supply and demand, and the price as an important parameter in measuring water resource value. Mercer [1] analyzed the profitability of municipal water sector after the water was priced. Moncur [2,3] (1988, 1987) studied the urban water pricing and drought countermeasure, estimating the relationship of users' water demands, price and income, and instituting a water using restriction project, and he considered that the rise of water marginal price played an obvious role in promoting water saving.…”

Section: Water Resource Valuementioning

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Study on Regulating Reservoir Changing Water Resource Value Mechanism

Zhang

et al. 2011

AMR

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In order to understand the impact of reservoirs to water resource value more scientifically and rationally, and based on expatiating the study of water resource value theory, this paper reveals the mechanism of regulating reservoir changing water resource value, by some physical theory such as momentum and kinetic energy theory, as well as resource scarcity theory. It is that the reservoirs transfer the relative control pivot’s labor value to the flowing water resources, and change the scarcity value of regulating water resources, by dam working on regulating water resources. The paper provides a scientific basis for regulating reservoir obtaining compensation benefits.

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THE EFFICIENCY OF WATER PRICING: A RATE OF RETURN ANALYSIS FOR MUNICIPAL WATER DEPARTMENTS¹

Cited by 6 publications

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Conservation rates in the real world

Conservation rates in the real world

Precision Agriculture Technologies; The Socioeconomic Determinants Of The Canal Lining Adoption

Study on Regulating Reservoir Changing Water Resource Value Mechanism

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Conservation rates in the real world

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Precision Agriculture Technologies; The Socioeconomic Determinants Of The Canal Lining Adoption

Study on Regulating Reservoir Changing Water Resource Value Mechanism

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