Towards Urban Water Reform: A Discussion Paper

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Abstract: Most urban households face severe restrictions on their use of water. These impose hidden costs that could amount to billions of dollars each year. Australia’s urban water shortages are only partly due to low rainfall. An important contributor has been inadequate institutional arrangements for the management of our urban water resources. This discussion paper identifies a number of deficiencies in how urban water is currently managed, the most fundamental being the lack of any effective market. The Commission argues that appropriate reforms would be best advanced through a comprehensive public review, to determine the merits of different options and build a greater understanding within the community of the costs of the status quo and the tradeoffs in pursuing change.

Keywords: water use; water demand; water recycling; water resources; water trading; desalinisation (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: Q (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 163 pages.
Date: 2008-03
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