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AUSTRALIAN JOURNAL OF AGRICULTURAL AND RESOURCE ECONOMICS
Volume 51, Issue 3, Pages 227-241Publisher
BLACKWELL PUBLISHING
DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-8489.2007.00390.x
Keywords
water pricing; water policy; urban water
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The paper estimates an aggregate daily water demand for Sydney using rainfall, temperature, and price data from 2001 to 2005, and a dummy variable to account for reductions in demand following the introduction of water restrictions in October 2003. Analyses based on the estimated price elasticity, and also values one and two standard errors above and below this estimate, are used to model the effects of different pricing and water supply scenarios. The simulations indicate that without a fundamental change in water policy (pricing and supply) Sydney faces the possibility of critical water shortages in the short- to medium-term should there be a continuation of low rainfall events.
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