Measuring Water Affordability: A Proposal for Urban Centres in Developed Countries
Measuring Water Affordability: A Proposal for Urban Centres in Developed Countries
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DOI：
10.1080/07900627.2010.491971
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发表时间：
2010-01-01
影响因子：
3.1
通讯作者：
Gonzalez-Gomez, Francisco
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作者：
De Los Angeles Garcia-Valinas, Maria;Martinez-Espineira, Roberto;Gonzalez-Gomez, Francisco
尽管每个人都应该得到水，至少是基本需要的水，但许多家庭在支付水费方面有困难。对水的可承受性的评估为旨在确保普遍获得水的水费的设计提供了信息。为了进行这种评估，管理人员必须有能够准确反映水的可承受性状况的工具。在这篇文章中，传统上用于衡量水的负担能力的指标之一的批评，并提出了一种替代方法来衡量水的负担能力的建议。实证分析适用于西班牙南部301个社区的数据。
Although water, at least for basic needs, should be accessible to everyone, many families have trouble paying their water bill. Assessments of water affordability inform the design of water tariffs aimed at ensuring universal access to water. In order to carry out such assessments, managers must have instruments available that accurately reflect the state of water affordability. In this article, a critique is presented of one of the indicators traditionally used to measure water affordability and a proposal of an alternative way of measuring water affordability is put forward. The empirical analysis is applied to data from 301 communities in southern Spain.