Urban water pricing: practical perspectives and customer preferences (journal article)
by Lin Crase, Sue O'Keefe and Brian Dollery
from Economic Papers, Vol 27 No 2 June 2008, pp. 194-206
There is considerable variation between Australian jurisdictions in their approach to urban water and waste-water pricing. Regardless of the explicit commitments of signatories to the National Water Initiative to 'best practice pricing' in 2004, there are no obvious signs that a common and efficient pricing regime is emerging. This paper considers one of the dimensions of urban water tariffs: the split between 'volumetric' and 'access' charges."
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