Affordability of residential water tariffs: Alternative measurement and explanatory factors in southern Spain
Using information on a basic or “lifeline” level of domestic water use obtained from a water demand function based on a Stone–Geary utility function, a minimum water threshold of 128m per household per year was estimated in a sample of municipalities in Southern Spain. As a second objective, water a...
| Publicado en: | Journal of Environmental Management Vol. 91; no. 12; pp. 2696 - 2707 |
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