Water Pricing Misconceptions: Tiered Block Water Rates Give No Incentive for Water Conservation (Robert Stavins, HuffingtonPost)
Mar.17, 2009 in
Water Bills, Water Industry, Water Management, Water Rates
(March 16, 2009, Robert Stavins, The Huffington Post)
Throughout the United States, water management has been approached primarily as an engineering problem, rather than an economic one. Water supply managers are reluctant to use price increases as water conservation tools, instead relying on non-price demand management techniques, such as requirements for the adoption of specific technologies [...]
