Supporting the development of municipal water policy: a study of the United States with implications for other nations

摘要: The challenges faced by both developed and developing nations to collect, distribute, conserve water are becoming even more difficult. While different strategies have been attempted governments, an economically viable solution appears be the use of increasing block-rate tariffs. In United States, determining its feasibility implementation potential for success currently involves large expensive surveys paired with various marketing advertising strategies. Our paper helps alleviate these logistical constructing a model that accounts differences in block pricing structures across continental U.S. estimating probability community particular characteristics would such structure. Using data on 467 communities each 48 contiguous states, our conditioning set explains substantial amount variation U.S., aiding policy makers when exploring conservation alternatives regulation. can also lay groundwork similar studies other contemplating