Water tariffs are a powerful management tool. Indeed, they can be seen as a conceptually
simple way to promote multiple, possibly conflicting, objectives. Those trade-offs cause …

A dramatic change of ownership, regulation, and organisation of essential public services,
such as electricity, gas, and telecommunications, has taken place in Europe in less than 20 …

Article 9 of the Water Framework Directive (WFD) requires member states to take account
not only of the principle of cost recovery of water services, including environmental and …

This paper discusses the state-of-the-art of the economic debate around water pricing,
focussing on residential water supply and sanitation. Water pricing lays at the crossroads of …

Financially self-sustainable management of urban water infrastructure assets in IBTs
structure is a significant challenge faced by policy makers. In this paper, a novel causal loop …

We assess the impact of implementing the full cost recovery (FCR) principle for water
services on European households. This assessment includes three dimensions. First, we …

Water supply (WS) tariffs have evolved significantly in the past decades, although in a
varying fashion around the world. Indeed, this development is linked to increasingly …

Worldwide growing water scarcity has increased the call for economic instruments to
stimulate rational water use in agriculture. Furthermore, cost-recovery is now widely …

In Portugal, in the early twenty first century, the water utilities industry was still quite complex
displaying considerable financial shortcomings. That issue occurred, mainly, at the retail …

While the interdependence of the different aspects of water security and the relevance of
ethical and distributive aspects is acknowledged in both policy circles and academia, a …