Reports

The references listed below include reports on numerous issues regarding pricing and rate structures (both in the U.S. and internationally) and their relationship to water conservation.

EPA

• Expert Workshop on Full Cost Pricing of Water and Wastewater Service PDF (89pp, 554K, About PDF)
• Consolidated Water Rates: Issues and Practices in Single Tariff Pricing (EPA, Office of Ground Water and Drinking Water, EPA 816-R-99-009, 1999)

Water Pricing in Canada

• Canadian Union of Public Employees: "The Price is Right...in Canada"
• Canadian Water and Wastewater Association: Municipal Water and Wastewater Rate Manual
• Environment Canada: "Municipal Water Rates in Canada - Current Practices and Prices, 1991"
• Environment Probe: "Why Canada's water systems are failing us"
• Guidelines for Municipal Water Pricing, Roger McNeill and Donald Tate

Other

• Raftelis Financial Consulting 2004 Water and Wastewater Rate Survey
• Water Engineering & Management, Water and Wastewater Cost and Rate-Setting Trends, May 1995
• "Water-Utility Regulation: Rates and Cost Recovery," Patrick C. Mann, The Reason Foundation, 1993

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