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WRRCTR No.167 Water Pricing, Conservation, and Urban Water Management

ScholarSpace at University of Hawaii at Manoa

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Title WRRCTR No.167 Water Pricing, Conservation, and Urban Water Management
Creator Moncur, James E.T.
Subject water conservation water management water costs pricing water use water demand economic aspects econometrics elasticity of demand price elasticity regression model urban water demand Board of Water Supply Oahu Honolulu (Hawaii) Municipal water supply -- Hawaii -- Oahu. Water -- Costs -- Hawaii -- Oahu. Water conservation -- Hawaii -- Oahu.
Description Board of Water Supply The potential for using water pricing was investigated as a tool to promote conservation efforts of the water supplies of Oahu. Traditional approaches, in Honolulu as elsewhere in the United States, to an impending long-term shortage of water relative to demand emphasize augmenting the supply of water, on the implicit ground that consumers "need" certain quantities, whatever the price. A survey of Honolulu single-family residential customers of the Honolulu Board of Water Supply was conducted...
Date 2008-07-17T22:59:49Z 2008-07-17T22:59:49Z 1984-10
Type Report Text
Identifier Moncur JET. 1984. Water pricing, conservation, and urban water management. Honolulu (HI): Water Resources Research Center, University of Hawaii at Manoa. WRRC technical report, 167. http://hdl.handle.net/10125/2015
Language en-US
Relation WRRC Technical Report 167
Format viii + 54 pages application/pdf
Publisher Water Resources Research Center, University of Hawaii at Manoa

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