Urban Water Tariffs in Spain: What Needs to Be Done?
Recently, in the context of the Integrated Water Resources Management, demand policies are playing a more important role as opposed to traditional supply policies based on the construction of large hydraulic infrastructures. In this new context, water tariffs have become an important tool in achievi...
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Published in | Water (Basel) Vol. 7; no. 4; pp. 1456 - 1479 |
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Main Authors | , , |
Format | Journal Article Book Review |
Language | English |
Published |
Basel
MDPI AG
01.04.2015
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Online Access | Get full text |
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Summary: | Recently, in the context of the Integrated Water Resources Management, demand policies are playing a more important role as opposed to traditional supply policies based on the construction of large hydraulic infrastructures. In this new context, water tariffs have become an important tool in achieving economic efficiency, environmental sustainability, and social equity. This paper reviews the situation of urban water tariffs in Spain, a country subject to high water stress. It analyzes the capacity of urban water tariffs to recover service costs and to promote efficiency, sustainability, affordability, and equity. Although it has made significant progress in recent years, the Spanish urban water tariff system still faces many challenges. Many of these challenges would be better addressed by a national independent regulatory body. |
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Bibliography: | ObjectType-Article-1 SourceType-Scholarly Journals-1 ObjectType-Feature-2 content type line 23 |
ISSN: | 2073-4441 2073-4441 |
DOI: | 10.3390/w7041456 |