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Tiered Water Rates: Understanding Their Equity and Impacts on Customer Bills
Author(s) -
Clumpner Greg
Publication year - 2019
Publication title -
journal ‐ american water works association
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.466
H-Index - 74
eISSN - 1551-8833
pISSN - 0003-150X
DOI - 10.1002/awwa.1363
Subject(s) - business , equity (law) , water supply , natural resource economics , water utility , water quality , environmental economics , economics , environmental science , environmental engineering , ecology , biology , political science , law
Key Takeaways Rate design affects individual customer bills and the equity of individual ratepayers within (not just between) customer classes. A better understanding of tiered rates may lower the risk of ratepayers seeing water and wastewater rates as inequitable. Water utilities should demonstrate the cost basis of water rates, especially how tiered rates reflect water supply costs and quantities.