The Value of Water Supply Reliability in Urban Water Systems

Howe, Charles W.; Smith, Martin Ferguson; Bennett, Lynne; Brendecke, Charles M.; Flack, J. Ernest; Hamm, Robert M.; Mann, Roger; Rozaklis, Lee; Wunderlich, Karl

doi:10.1006/jeem.1994.1002

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“…A number of studies have investigated individuals' and households' preferences for drought water restrictions by employing the stated preference techniques of choice experiments and CV (Cooper et al 2011;Hensher et al 2006;Gordon et al 2001;Koss and Khawaja 2001;Griffin and Mjelde 2000;Howe and Smith 1994). Most of these studies have occurred at a time of water scarcity.…”

Section: Preferences Towards Water Restrictionsmentioning

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Willingness to Pay to Avoid Water Restrictions in Australia Under a Changing Climate

Cooper

Burton

Crase

2018

Environ Resource Econ

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Mandatory water use restrictions have become a common feature of the urban water management landscape in countries like Australia. Water restrictions limit how water can be used and their impacts have often been enumerated by using stated preference techniques, like contingent valuation. Most interest in these studies emerged in times of drought, when the severity of restrictions and their deployment had increased and water managers contemplate supply augmentation measures. A question thus arises as to whether the same estimates can be legitimately deployed to water supply projects undertaken when water is more plentiful. This study sheds light on the impact on estimates of willingness to pay when the climatic backdrop to a contingent valuation experiment is altered. We report the results of a comparison between two surveys, undertaken in 2008 and 2012, using a common multiple-bounded discrete choice contingent valuation design, administered across six cities in Australia, covering metropolitan and regional settings. Using a finite mixture, scaled ordered probit model we investigate changes over time in willingness to pay by city, and also causes of individual heterogeneity in willingness to pay. We find that willingness to pay estimates significantly change over time in most regional centres but this is not the case for the major cities of Sydney and Melbourne, once changes in housing prices are included in the analysis.

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Section: Preferences Towards Water Restrictionsmentioning

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Willingness to Pay to Avoid Water Restrictions in Australia Under a Changing Climate

Cooper

Burton

Crase

2018

Environ Resource Econ

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“…Griffin and Mjelde (2000) argued that "[water managers] are not judged by their ability to deliver water that has value in excess of its costs, [...] but simply by their ability to deliver a dependable, steady, and problem-free water supply" (p.414). Their paper provides valuations of consumers' preferences for different water supply reliability values, adding to previous evaluations reported by Howe et al (1994). Surprisingly, analogous efforts to obtain commercial users' willingness to pay for various supply reliability levels have not been found in the literature.…”

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“…Not a single answer exists for such a question. Institutionalists (Bakker et al,1998;Kenney, 1995;O´Riordian and A.Jordan, 1999;Ostrom, 1990); economists (Beare et al, 1998;Howe and Smith, 1994); modellers (Dudley and Hearn, 1993;Garrido and Gómez-Ramos, 2000); geographers (Emel and Roberts, 1995), engineers (Harding et al, 1995); sociologists (Keenan and Krannich, 1997); and statisticians (Tarboton, 1995;Hobbs, 1997), among others, contribute with alternative and non-exclusive explanations of why societies experience periods of water shortages. Several authors argue that attenuated property rights over State-managed water bodies are conducive to dominant non-cooperative strategies pursued by rights-holders in their game with water managers to secure water access in uncertain hydrological conditions (Lise et al, 2000).…”

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An Economic Drought Management Index to Evaluate Water Institutions' Performance Under Uncertainty and Climate Change

2001

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“…For instance, Faux and Perry [6] estimated irrigation water value in Oregon, US, by applying hedonic price analysis. Howe et al [7] explored the value of water in urban water system by conducting a contingent valuation method. In addition, Young and Loomis [1] summarized various valuation methods to estimate the value of water.…”

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Heterogeneous Value of Water: Empirical Evidence in South Korea

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Anthropogenic pressures have exacerbated self-sustaining river services, and growing concerns over sustaining river system become global problematic issues that lead us to implement river restoration projects. Of those projects, governing diverse needs and desires from stakeholders for those who have various water values are key elements of identifying the success of the project. In fact, the Korean government has had concern over restoring the rivers which brings to construct 16 weirs in four major rivers and may fail to achieve main goal of the project, which is to ameliorate water quality. In this study, principle component analysis and multinomial logit model were executed to investigate major socioeconomic variables to influence water values in terms of sustainability in Korea. Evitable evidences have been found that age, income, education level, and city dwelling are the most effective variables to estimate water values. In addition, a monotonous water development project and a myopic view could cause major dejection across the nation and may lead to the failure of water governance. Unfortunately, the latter may be observed in Korea as one of the reasons for the recent amplification of major conflicts.

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The Value of Water Supply Reliability in Urban Water Systems

Cited by 104 publications

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Willingness to Pay to Avoid Water Restrictions in Australia Under a Changing Climate

Willingness to Pay to Avoid Water Restrictions in Australia Under a Changing Climate

An Economic Drought Management Index to Evaluate Water Institutions' Performance Under Uncertainty and Climate Change

Heterogeneous Value of Water: Empirical Evidence in South Korea

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