The political economy of water pricing reforms

By Ariel Dinar. 2000

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Efficiency, equity, and sustainability in a water quantity-quality optimization model in the Rio Grande basin (2008, background): “By comparison, the Los Angeles Department of Water and Power, one celebrated practitioner of two-tiered pricing, structures rates to increase during drought (Hall, 2000 and Los Angeles (2006)).”
Water institutional reforms: theory and practice (2005, background): “…by guest on 03 November 2019 some of the theoretical postulates and reform principles reported in the literature on institutional economics in general and water institutional economics in particular (e.g. North, 1990; Dinar, 2000; Saleth & Dinar, 2004).”
Pricing irrigation water: a review of theory and practice (2002, background): “The strengths of the various groups depend on such things as informational power, which can lead to second-best allocations, and are thus important when planning and implementing water pricing reform (Tsur, 2000; Renzetti, 2000).”
Comparing price and nonprice approaches to urban water conservation (2009, unknown): “One year later, the entire Tucson city council was voted out of office due to the water rate increase (Hall 2000).”
Pricing Irrigation Water : A Literature Survey (2000, unknown): “However, as a framework for describing this literature, it is useful to understand the reasons for reform, the institutions undergoing reform, who is supporting/opposing the reform and compensation mechanisms, and possible international influences on the reform process (Dinar, 2000).”
Reforming Infrastructure: Privatization, Regulation, and Competition (2004, background): “Some deviations from optimal pricing are due to political and social constraints: noneconomic and equity considerations inevitably influence efforts to implement economically efficient pricing (Kahn 1988; Dinar 2000).”
Politics, Plurality and Problemsheds: A Strategic Approach for Reform of Agricultural Water Resources Management (2007, unknown): “Administrative water-pricing efforts have often engendered opposition, and in addition foundered on difficulties in measuring water deliveries and collecting fees (Dinar, 2000; Molle and Berkoff, 2007).”
Current Issues in the Economics of Groundwater Resource Management (2004, unknown): “The evidence presented in Dinar (2000) suggest that the water sector is no different from other sectors when it comes to implementing reforms.”
Transaction cost measurement for evaluating environmental policies (2005, background): “While addressing broader issues than transaction cost measurement, Dinar (2000) suggests that data should be collected on water pricing reforms as they occur.”