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  title info:
    title: Estimating the value of water-use efficiency in the Intermountain West
  name:
    name part: Groves, David G.
    role:
      role term: creator
  name:
    name part: Griffin, James.
  name:
    name part: Hajiamiri, Sara.
  name:
    name part: Rand Environment, Energy, and Economic Development (Program)
  name:
    name part: JSTOR (Organization)
  type of resource: text
  genre: bibliography
  genre: Electronic books.
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: cau
    date issued: 2008
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: remote
    extent: 1 online resource (xviii, 69 pages) : illustrations (some color), color map.
  abstract: "Evaluating the cost-effectiveness of water-efficiency programs can be difficult, because not all the benefits are easily quantified. This report presents an economic framework based on two tools from the California Urban Water Conservation Council to estimate the avoided costs and environmental benefits of an agency's efficiency programs. The report evaluates the benefits of Denver Water efficiency programs and uses an exploratory modeling approach to accommodate the significant uncertainty in such estimations. The results of this study suggest that the inclusion of long-run avoided costs and environmental benefits is critical to fully recognizing the value of water-use efficiency programs. The authors find that evaluating only the short-run avoided costs leads to the conclusion that many water-efficiency projects already a part of Denver Water's 10-year conservation plan are not cost-effective. When long-run avoided costs and environmental and recreational benefits were factored in, all but two Denver Water programs were estimated to be cost-effective. The timing of projected water savings from efficiency programs is also critical. Water savings from programs that concentrate savings during summer months, when water is scarcer, should be valued higher than saving from programs that lead to more uniform water savings throughout the year, because these water savings reduce peak water needs."--Publisher's website.
  table of contents: Introduction -- Denver Water Case Study -- Case-Study Methodology -- Results -- Summary and Conclusions -- Appendix A: Avoided-Cost Model -- Appendix B: Environmental-Benefit Modeling -- Appendix C: Impact of Supply and Demand Changes on Long-Run Avoided Costs -- Appendix D: Efficiency-Program Cost Estimates.
  note: David G. Groves, James Griffin, Sara Hajiamiri.
  note: "Sponsored by the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation."
  note: "Rand Environment, Energy, and Economic Development."
  note: Electronic resource.
  note: Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL
  note: digitized 2010 HathiTrust Digital Library committed to preserve pda MiAaHDL
  note: Includes bibliographical references (pages 67-69).
  subject:
    geographic code: n-usp--
  subject:
    topic: Water efficiency
    geographic: Great Basin
  subject:
    topic: Water resources development
    geographic: Great Basin
  subject:
    topic: Water-supply
    geographic: Great Basin
  subject:
    topic: Water utilities
    geographic: Great Basin
  subject:
    topic: TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING
    topic: Environmental
    topic: Water Supply
  subject:
    topic: POLITICAL SCIENCE
    topic: Public Policy
    topic: Environmental Policy
  subject:
    topic: Water efficiency
  subject:
    topic: Water resources development
  subject:
    topic: Water-supply
  subject:
    topic: Water utilities
  subject:
    geographic: United States
    geographic: Great Basin
  classification: TC425.M66 C35 2008eb
  classification: 363.6/10979
  related item:
    title info:
      title: Estimating the value of water-use efficiency in the Intermountain West
    name:
      name part: Groves, David G.
    origin info:
      publisher: Santa Monica, CA : Rand Corp., 2008
    identifier: (DLC) 2007052725
    identifier: (OCoLC)185095737
  related item:
    title info:
      title: Technical report (Rand Corporation) ; TR-504-HF
  identifier: 9780833044426
  identifier: 0833044427
  identifier: 128143017X
  identifier: 9781281430175
  identifier: 9780833043979
  identifier: 0833043978
  identifier: 22573/cttg13c JSTOR
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  record info:
    record content source: N$T
    record creation date: 080721
    record change date: 20260728172648.6
    record identifier: in00003894809
    language of cataloging:
      language term: eng