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Water Wisdom in Los Angeles Means Everybody, Not Just Water Over-Users, will Pick Up Tab (LosAngelesTimes)

(April 14, 2009, The Los Angeles Times)
It would be nice if only the overusers picked up that higher tab, but without a further, and very time-consuming, overhaul of the city’s rates, those higher prices would be borne by everyone. The council should take up that challenge too, but for now, the drought-year rates and the [...]

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Water Pricing Misconceptions: Tiered Block Water Rates Give No Incentive for Water Conservation (Robert Stavins, HuffingtonPost)

(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 [...]

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Biggest Risk to Business – Water Rationing and Water Shortage: Why not Raise Water Prices Instead, which can be Passed on More Easily to Consumer? (Aguanomics)

(March 10, 2009, Aguanomics)
The title of this post is my reformulation of “missing the forest for the trees,” and the subject of the post is a new report from the Pacific Institute.
In Water Scarcity and Climate Change: Growing Risks for Businesses and Investors, the PI assesses the various risks to water supplies that companies should [...]

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