Price Policy of Drinking Water in Tunisia: Panel Application

Bouchrika Ali and Chokri Terzi

International Journal of Environmental Sciences & Natural Resources, 2017, vol. 7, issue 1, 06-10

Abstract: This paper focus on policy of drinking water demand with application on Tunisian panel data. We estimate a model which explains consummate volume by the five slices of tariff corresponding to the progressive pricing. Long term results show that prices UP1, UP3 and UP5 has no effects on the preservation of the resource. Contrary to these three prices, UP2 and UP4 can be represented as a regulating mechanism. Concerning the global short run results, we notice that the coefficients of the prices UP1, UP3 and UP5 are negative what explains that these prices have an incentive effect. For the interregional short term results, price UP1 coefficient is negative and significant which mean that the proportion of the households which consume less than 20m3 is important within every governorate. The price UP2 which affect positively and significantly the consummate volume of drinking water represent a regulating mechanism.

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Date: 2017
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DOI: 10.19080/IJESNR.2017.07.555702

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