The Price Of Water

Author : Stephen Merrett
Publisher : IWA Publishing
Page : 229 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2007-08-31
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781843391777

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The Price of Water by Stephen Merrett Pdf

The Second Edition of the Price of Water expands on the coverage of the first edition and ambitiously develops the theme of the proper management of river basins, both with respect to the control of rivers’ water quality and the defence of their quantitative flows from source to sea. Using the hydrosocial balance concept of the first edition, and the grand theory of catchment water deficits, a remarkable breakthrough is made in understanding how river flows are destroyed by human society. Drawing on extensive empirical research into the Kafue River Basin and the Thames River Basin, it is shown that the exhaustion of river flows that we see on a world-wide scale can be explained by just five measurable ‘drivers’ to basin surplus and basin deficit. Moreover, by specifying the key drivers and measuring their value, the basis is provided for economic, engineering and land management strategies that will reverse river basin destruction. Bringing together 20 papers previously published in refereed journals, The Price of Water provides information that many readers would not otherwise have been able to access to through their professional and academic libraries. The scope of the book is broad, dealing with a diverse range of subjects such as regional and catchment planning and integrated water resources management. Topics considered include: both water quantities and qualities drought management the "virtual water" controversy farmers water-rights the economic demand for water the design of abstraction charges the cost and use of irrigation water the design of effluent charges the "willingness-to-pay" methodology catchment water deficits water resource impacts of new property construction water leakage impact on river basins managing water quality within EC directives.

Author : OECD
Publisher : OECD Publishing
Page : 174 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 1999-08-16
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9789264173996

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The Price of Water Trends in OECD Countries by OECD Pdf

This book reviews current practices and recent trends in water pricing practices for the household, agriculture, and industrial sectors in OECD countries.

Author : Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development
Publisher : Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development
Page : 180 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 1999-08-16
Category : Electronic books
ISBN : UCSC:32106012377484

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The Price of Water by Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development Pdf

The price of water is a key determinant of both the economic efficiency and the environmental effectiveness of water services. This book reviews current practices and recent trends in water pricing practices for the household, agriculture, and industrial sectors in OECD countries. It addresses pricing issues related to the full range of water services, including public supplies, sewage treatment and disposal, abstraction and discharge fees, and cost recovery. It also outlines recent developments in institutional arrangements related to water pricing, and briefly considers questions concerning the affordability of water services and the responsiveness of water demands to changes in price levels. Its broad coverage of issues, sectors, and countries makes it a unique overview of trends in the water pricing field.

Author : Bodil Malmsten
Publisher : Random House
Page : 226 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2012-08-31
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781448156856

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The Price of Water in Finistère by Bodil Malmsten Pdf

'In the same way as there's a partner for every person, there's a place. All you have to do is find the one that's yours among the billions that belong to someone else, you have to be awake, you have to choose.' With this conviction in mind, acclaimed Swedish writer Bodil Malmsten abandons her native country at the age of fifty-five and settles in Brittany. At the heart of this memoir is the conviction that the happiness to be found in Finistère will not allow itself to be, cannot be, expressed in writing. Embroidered around this seeming paradox are poignant, outraged and thought-provoking observations on the widest range of subjects: how not to buy plants, the elicit pleasures of bargain-hunting, the misery of writer's block, social democracy, racism, tulipomania, the stubbornness of bank managers, the controlling of moles and slugs, death, political hypocrisy, the delights of wild weather. Malmsten's passion and humour shine through every episode she describes, however minor, offering the reader a window onto a solitary life at once touching, thought-provoking and, occasionally, hilarious.

Author : Karen Piper
Publisher : U of Minnesota Press
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2014-10-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781452943725

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The Price of Thirst by Karen Piper Pdf

“There's Money in Thirst,” reads a headline in the New York Times. The CEO of Nestlé, purveyor of bottled water, heartily agrees. It is important to give water a market value, he says in a promotional video, so “we're all aware that it has a price.” But for those who have no access to clean water, a fifth of the world's population, the price is thirst. This is the frightening landscape that Karen Piper conducts us through in The Price of Thirst—one where thirst is political, drought is a business opportunity, and more and more of our most necessary natural resource is controlled by multinational corporations. In visits to the hot spots of water scarcity and the hotshots in water finance, Piper shows us what happens when global businesses with mafia-like powers buy up the water supply and turn off the taps of people who cannot pay: border disputes between Iraq and Turkey, a “revolution of the thirsty” in Egypt, street fights in Greece, an apartheid of water rights in South Africa. The Price of Thirst takes us to Chile, the first nation to privatize 100 percent of its water supplies, creating a crushing monopoly instead of a thriving free market in water; to New Delhi, where the sacred waters of the Ganges are being diverted to a private water treatment plant, fomenting unrest; and to Iraq, where the U.S.-mandated privatization of water resources destroyed by our military is further destabilizing the volatile region. And in our own backyard, where these same corporations are quietly buying up water supplies, Piper reveals how “water banking” is drying up California farms in favor of urban sprawl and private towns. The product of seven years of investigation across six continents and a dozen countries, and scores of interviews with CEOs, activists, environmentalists, and climate change specialists, The Price of Thirst paints a harrowing picture of a world out of balance, with the distance between the haves and have-nots of water inexorably widening and the coming crisis moving ever closer.

Author : Ari Montgomery Michelsen,J. Thomas McGuckin,Donna M. Stumpf,AWWA Research Foundation
Publisher : American Water Works Association
Page : 156 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : Water conservation
ISBN : 9780898679540

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Effectiveness of Residential Water Conservation Price and Nonprice Programs by Ari Montgomery Michelsen,J. Thomas McGuckin,Donna M. Stumpf,AWWA Research Foundation Pdf

The purpose of this study is to build upon and extend previous water conservation research efforts of price and nonprice conservation programs on residential water demand in different urban areas of the southwestern United States. The primary research objectives are to: (1) develop residential water demand models to examine the effectiveness of price and nonprice programs; (2) develop and document a database of residential water demand in selected study ares; (3) evaluate the effectiveness of price and nonprice conservation programs using the water demand models and database developed for this study; and (4) examine the applicability of extending regional water demand relationships and results of conservation program effectiveness to other cities in the region. Specific issues examines on regional, seasonal and individual city basis include: How responsive are consumers to changes in the price of water?; are consumers responding to the average price, marginal price, or some combination of the two?; How does demand change or respond to implementation of nonprice conservation program? Is it appropriate to model and apply results on effectiveness to other cities in the region? The scope in terms of number and cross section of cities, detail of observations (monthly time periods), length of time covered and inclusion of price and nonprice programs combined with the analytical techniques used, contribute to making his one of the most comprehensive studies conducted on residential water use and the effectiveness of conservation programs. The research techniques and results of this evaluation will benefit water utilities and consumers through lower costs and more secure water supplies because of improved understanding and better planning and implementation of residential price, rate structure and nonprice conservation programs.

Author : Robert Maurice Clark,James I. Gillean,W. Kyle Adams
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 508 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 1977
Category : Water-supply
ISBN : UIUC:30112119810718

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The Cost of Water Supply and Water Utility Management by Robert Maurice Clark,James I. Gillean,W. Kyle Adams Pdf

Author : Angelo P. Grima
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
Page : 228 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 1972-12-15
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781487597931

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Residential Water Demand by Angelo P. Grima Pdf

This detailed study of the use of water at different price levels by residential consumers in the Toronto-centred region from Hamilton to Oshawa challenges the basis of our present urban water supply policy. Adoption of the recommendations presented would mean higher prices to householders, but a considerable saving of hundreds of millions of tax dollars over the next three decades. The present policy uses a 'requirement approach' in which future water needs are calculated by extrapolation of past trends and an assumption that demand is inelastic. This leads to excessive levels of water use and over-investment in water supply, sewage collection, and treatment systems. The resultant misallocation of resources can be corrected by adoption of a demand/management approach in which investment policy is guided by consumer demand and alternative pricing arrangements are used as a management tool. Dr. Grima examines several alternative choices for management, such as metering, increasing marginal prices, sewerage charges, seasonal charges, and an increasing price block schedule, and describes the results of each. Water managers in Canada are strongly challenged to begin a fundamental rethinking of their basic policies. (Department of Geography Research Publication 7)

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 522 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 1976
Category : Electronic
ISBN : NWU:35556031050537

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Water Treatment Plant and Transmission System, Price River Water Improvement District, Carbon County by Anonim Pdf

Author : OECD
Publisher : OECD Publishing
Page : 108 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2010-03-15
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9789264083608

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OECD Studies on Water Pricing Water Resources and Water and Sanitation Services by OECD Pdf

This report compiles reliable and comparable data on pricing water and on water supply and sanitation services across OECD countries.

Author : Thomas Cash Jorling
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 16 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 1978
Category : Water quality
ISBN : MINN:31951P01092297U

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What Price Water Quality? by Thomas Cash Jorling Pdf

Author : Robert Brewer,Patrick H. McAuley
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 100 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 1976
Category : Government publications
ISBN : UIUC:30112068357729

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National Water Assessment by Robert Brewer,Patrick H. McAuley Pdf

Author : United States. Bureau of Domestic Commerce
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 96 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 1976
Category : Industries
ISBN : UOM:39015013014629

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National Water Assessment by United States. Bureau of Domestic Commerce Pdf

Author : OECD
Publisher : OECD Publishing
Page : 122 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2010-03-15
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9789264083578

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OECD Studies on Water Sustainable Management of Water Resources in Agriculture by OECD Pdf

This report calls on policy makers to recognise the issues at stake in water resource management in agriculture and gives them the tools to do so, offering a wealth of information on recent trends and the outlook for water resource use in agriculture.

Author : Anik Bhaduri,Janos Bogardi,Jan Leentvaar,Sina Marx
Publisher : Springer
Page : 436 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2014-08-11
Category : Science
ISBN : 9783319075488

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The Global Water System in the Anthropocene by Anik Bhaduri,Janos Bogardi,Jan Leentvaar,Sina Marx Pdf

The Global Water System in the Anthropocene provides the platform to present global and regional perspectives of world-wide experiences on the responses of water management to global change in order to address issues such as variability in supply, increasing demands for water, environmental flows and land use change. It helps to build links between science and policy and practice in the area of water resources management and governance, relates institutional and technological innovations and identifies in which ways research can assist policy and practice in the field of sustainable freshwater management. Until the industrial revolution, human beings and their activities played an insignificant role influencing the dynamics of the Earth system, the sum of our planet‘s interacting physical, chemical, and biological processes. Today, humankind even exceeds nature in terms of changing the biosphere and affecting all other facets of Earth system functioning. A growing number of scientists argue that humanity has entered a new geological epoch that needs a corresponding name: the Anthropocene. Human activities impact the global water system as part of the Earth system and change the way water moves around the globe like never before. Thus, managing freshwater use wisely in the planetary water cycle has become a key challenge to reach global environmental sustainability.