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Single Tariff Pricing
Author(s) -
Limbach Edward W.
Publication year - 1984
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/j.1551-8833.1984.tb05407.x
Subject(s) - tariff , dilemma , service (business) , business , economics , microeconomics , international economics , mathematics , marketing , geometry
Single tariff pricing for 12 separate water districts, served by an investor‐owned utility in West Virginia, solved the problem of disparate water rates. Each customer in the service area now pays the same rate for the same service, although there are only 578 customers in the smallest district and 58 000 in the largest. The new rate structure resulted in as much as a 41 percent decrease in rates in one small district and only an 8 percent increase in the largest. The concept could help solve the dilemma of other nonintegrated small water systems.