Towards Sustainable Water Policy in Kuwait: Reforms of the Current Practices and the Required Investments, Institutional and Legislative Measures

Fadlelmawla, A.

doi:10.1007/s11269-008-9363-4

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“…Water demand management is one of the most relevant issues facing many cities throughout the world (Arbués et al 2010;Babel et al 2007;Faldelmawla 2009;Yurdusev and Kumanhoglu 2008;Zhong and Mol 2010). Traditional water demand management measures are a pro-active approach to water conservation (Yurdusev and Kumanhoglu 2008), which seek to affect the users preferences towards water use, so that a sustainable use of water is reached.…”

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confidence: 99%

Urban Water Demand for Service and Industrial Use: The Case of Zaragoza

Arbués

García-Valiñas

Villanúa

2010

Water Resour Manage

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Increased efforts to improve urban water management are focused on demand side policies, seeking to affect the behavior of users so that a "reasonable" use of water resources is reached. In this framework the accurate characterization of water demand play a major role in obtaining sufficient knowledge about this behavioral response to changes in price. In this paper we focus on the water demand of the services and industries connected to the public water network. To this end, we carry out an empirical estimation of urban water demand for service and industrial use in Zaragoza (Spain). The proposed model is a Koyck flow adjustment demand model, and a price specification, which is constructed as a function of the lagged average price, current marginal price and a price perception parameter. We use a dynamic panel data methodology to estimate the water demand function. As far as we are aware, this approach to service and industrial urban water demand is new in the literature. The analysis suggests that although price has a negative relationship with consumption, such an effect is reduced given that the price elasticity is lower

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Urban Water Demand for Service and Industrial Use: The Case of Zaragoza

Arbués

García-Valiñas

Villanúa

2010

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“…According to Fadlelmawla (2009), desalinated water covers all potable water needs in Kuwait, including domestic, industrial, and commercial requirements. After discussing the fresh water situation in Kuwait, Fadlelmawla puts forward three main water policy targets for Kuwait: reduction of demand, augmentation of supply, and maintenance of natural resources.…”

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Estimating Residential Demand for Water in Kuwait: A Cointegration Analysis

Alfalah

2021

IJEEP

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This paper aims to investigate the determinants of water demand in Kuwait and assess their impact on consumption. To do this, we applied the cointegration regression and the error correction model (ECM) on annual time series data, covering the period from 1972 to 2019. We found that the price elasticity for fresh water demand in Kuwait is negative and elastic in the long run (-1.095), which is consistent with the existing literature. Also, we found that the income elasticity for demand was positive in the long run (0.234), however, no short run effect was found for either price or income. Our results suggest that policymakers should expect a long run impact when using water prices to adjust the consumption behavior in Kuwait.

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“…The objective should be to integrate such measures given water availability will not keep pace with airport expansion or the expected growth over the next years. It is also important to highlight that many countries have considered methodologies for introducing tariffs for water, previously considered a free resource (Fadlelmawla, 2009;Zhong and Mol, 2010). According to Zhong and Mol (2010), water pricing systems such as these have many objectives: to cover increasing costs, protect scarce resources and introduce an economic motivation for promoting the efficient use of water.…”

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“…Urban water management efforts are usually focused on demand policies that try to encourage the rational use of this resource in order to reduce losses and waste. Demand management is one of the most relevant issues worldwide (Arbués et al, 2010;Fadlelmawla, 2009;Zhong and Mol, 2010), focusing on reducing consumption related to water end-uses by, for instance, using water-saving sanitary fixtures. The objective is to minimize the need for water supply and sewage treatment, both of which are associated with high costs and can be environmentally and socially detrimental (Willis et al, 2011).…”

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confidence: 99%