Table of Contents:
  • Hydrology and water supply / Nathan Buras
  • Price rationing / Donald E. Agthe and R. Bruce Billings
  • Water supply economics / Benedykt Dziegielewski
  • Elasticity of demand for water resource managers / Donald E. Agthe and R. Bruce Billings
  • Water transactions as an urban water supply strategy / Bonnie G. Colby
  • Market structure and price regulation / Donald E. Agthe
  • Industrial and commercial water demands / Steven Renzetti
  • Public drinking water in the United States / Ronnie Levin
  • Water system organization and financial decision making / R. Bruce Billings
  • Drinking water disinfection in the United States : balancing infectious disease, cancer and costs, market and nonmarket failures / Ronnie Levin and Mark A.R. Kleiman
  • Effects of land subsidence in the greater Houston area / Devin L. Galloway, Laura Coplin, and Steve Ingebritsen
  • Solving groundwater overdraft in Arizona urban areas / Donald E. Agthe and R. Bruce Billings
  • Urban water in Israel / Yoav Kislev
  • The British experience / Kenneth F. Clarke
  • Concluding remarks / Donald E. Agthe, R. Bruce Billings, and Nathan Buras.