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Managing Urban Water Supply

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Editors:
  1. Donald E. Agthe

    1. Tucson, USA

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  2. R. Bruce Billings

    1. Department of Economics, University of Arizona, Tucson, USA

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  3. Nathan Buras

    1. Department of Hydrology and Water Resources, University of Arizona, Tucson, USA

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Part of the book series: Water Science and Technology Library (WSTL, volume 46)

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Table of contents (16 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xxv
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  2. Introduction

    • Donald E. Agthe, R. Bruce Billings, Nathan Buras
    Pages 1-9

  3. Hydrology and Water Supply

    • Nathan Buras
    Pages 11-22

  4. Price Rationing

    • Donald E. Agthe, R. Bruce Billings
    Pages 23-43

  5. Water Supply Economics

    • Benedykt Dziegielewski
    Pages 45-70

  6. Elasticity of Demand for Water Resource Managers

    • Donald E. Agthe, R. Bruce Billings
    Pages 71-86

  7. Water Transactions as an Urban Water Supply Strategy

    • Bonnie G. Colby
    Pages 87-101

  8. Market Structure and Price Regulation

    • Donald E. Agthe
    Pages 103-113

  9. Industrial and Commercial Water Demands

    • Steven Renzetti
    Pages 115-125

  10. Public Drinking Water in the United States

    • Ronnie Levin
    Pages 127-145

  11. Water System Organization and Financial Decision Making

    • R. Bruce Billings
    Pages 147-165

  12. Drinking Water Disinfection in the United States: Balancing Infectious Disease, Cancer and Costs, Market and Nonmarket Failures

    • Ronnie Levin, Mark A. R. Kleiman
    Pages 167-185

  13. Effects of Land Subsidence in the Greater Houston Area

    • Devin L. Galloway, Laura S. Coplin, Steve E. Ingebritsen
    Pages 187-203

  14. Solving Groundwater Overdraft in Arizona Urban Areas

    • Donald E. Agthe, R. Bruce Billings
    Pages 205-218

  15. Urban Water in Israel

    • Yoav Kislev
    Pages 219-240

  16. The British Experience

    • Kenneth F. Clarke
    Pages 241-255

  17. Concluding Remarks

    • Donald E. Agthe, R. Bruce Billings, Nathan Buras
    Pages 257-269

  18. Back Matter

    Pages 271-277
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About this book

We, the editors, have long believed that a strong knowledge of relatively simple economic and engineering concepts is valuable in solving water management problems. The lack of such knowledge has been apparent to us in some of the journal articles, research proposals and books we have reviewed. The articles which have been written concerning specific local water economies and management issues are scattered over a wide variety of journals, making them hard to access. Most of the extensive water resources literature is concerned with large regional water projects or with narrow technical and regional issues. This book was written to make practical economic and engineering concepts readily available to urban water supply managers, thereby filling a gap in the available literature. It is concerned with decisions made daily, monthly, or annually by managers of urban water supply systems. The book includes basic chapters presenting supply and cost concepts, calculation of demand elasticities, use of marketing concepts, public goods analysis, water markets, industrial water demand and the use of price in water conservation. The authors have included multiple examples of how these concepts can aid in managing urban water supply. The water provider is generally a governmental entity or regulated private utility. Most books on public utilities and their management emphasize gas, electricity, or telephone rather than water. Water is different because of m~or variations in quality by source and the necessity for proper disposal of waste water.

Editors and Affiliations

  • Tucson, USA

    Donald E. Agthe

  • Department of Economics, University of Arizona, Tucson, USA

    R. Bruce Billings

  • Department of Hydrology and Water Resources, University of Arizona, Tucson, USA

    Nathan Buras

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Managing Urban Water Supply

  • Editors: Donald E. Agthe, R. Bruce Billings, Nathan Buras

  • Series Title: Water Science and Technology Library

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-017-0237-9

  • Publisher: Springer Dordrecht

  • eBook Packages: Springer Book Archive

  • Copyright Information: Springer Science+Business Media Dordrecht 2003

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-1-4020-1720-9Published: 30 November 2003

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-90-481-6470-7Published: 30 December 2010

  • eBook ISBN: 978-94-017-0237-9Published: 29 June 2013

  • Series ISSN: 0921-092X

  • Series E-ISSN: 1872-4663

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XXV, 277

  • Number of Illustrations: 38 b/w illustrations

  • Topics: Hydrogeology, Regional/Spatial Science

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