Managing urban water supply
By: edited by Donald E. Agthe, R. Bruce Billings, and Nathan Buras.
Contributors: Agthe, Donald E.; Billings, R. Bruce.; Buras, Nathan.
Series: Water science and technology library -- v. 46.
Publisher: Kluwer Academic Publishers
Published: 2003
Place of publication: Dordrecht; Boston
Language: eng
Number of pages: 274
Subjects: Municipal water supply -- Economic aspects; Municipal water supply -- Management
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Hydrology and water supply / Nathan Buras; title: Price rationing / Donald E. Agthe and R. Bruce Billings; title: Water supply economics / Benedykt Dziegielewski; title: Elasticity of demand for water resource managers / Donald E. Agthe and R. Bruce Billings; title: Water transactions as an urban water supply strategy / Bonnie G. Colby; title: Market structure and price regulation / Donald E. Agthe; title: Industrial and commercial water demands / Steven Renzetti; title: Public drinking water in the United States / Ronnie Levin; title: Water system organization and financial decision making / R. Bruce Billings; title: Drinking water disinfection in the United States : balancing infectious disease, cancer and costs, market and nonmarket failures / Ronnie Levin and Mark A.R. Kleiman; title: Effects of land subsidence in the greater Houston area / Devin L. Galloway, Laura Coplin, and Steve Ingebritsen; title: Solving groundwater overdraft in Arizona urban areas / Donald E. Agthe and R. Bruce Billings; title: Urban water in Israel / Yoav Kislev; title: The British experience / Kenneth F. Clarke; title: Concluding remarks / Donald E. Agthe, R. Bruce Billings, and Nathan Buras.