RIS ID
15741
Abstract
The increased reliance on demand-side management policies as an urban water consumption management tool has stimulated considerable debate among economists, water utility managers, regulators, consumer interest groups and policymakers. In turn, this has fostered an increasing volume of literature aimed at providing best-practice estimates of price and income elasticities, quantifying the impact of non-price water restrictions and gauging the impact of nondiscretionary environmental factors affecting residential water demand. This paper provides a synoptic survey of empirical residential water demand analyses conducted in the last twenty-five years. Both model specification and estimation and the outcomes of the analyses are discussed.
Publication Details
This paper was originally published as Worthington, AC and Hoffmann, M, A state of the art review of residential water demand modelling, University of Wollongong, School of Accounting and Finance Working Paper Series No. 06/27, 2006.