Multilateral Working Group on Water Resources
Water Data Banks Project
Entry from Directory of Selected Palestinian Water-related Publications
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| TITLE: | Water Prices as a Tool for Optimising Water Use in Palestine AUTHOR(S): Abdel-Karim Asa’d |
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| PUBLISHER: | Unpublished |
| PAGES: | 17 |
| PUBLICATION DATE: | May 1996 |
| LANGUAGE OF PUBLICATION: | English |
| ABSTRACT: | Financial and economic measures are important tools for water demand management. Water tariffs and water prices have a direct effect in controlling the water demand in areas where water is considered a rare and scarce commodity as the case is in Palestine. The use of varying water tariff and price categories can result in transferring water use from one economic sector to another or in encouraging water use within the same sector, in accordance to present national plans. Due to the direct impact of prices on national plans, financial measures should be reviewed, monitored, and controlled by the regulating body of the water sector. |
| ADDRESS FROM WHICH THE REPORT CAN BE OBTAINED: | Jerusalem Water Undertaking (JWU), Ramallah, West Bank. Tel: (02) 9956551 |
| AVAILABILITY OF REPORT: | Photocopies available at the Palestinian Water Authority library, P.O. Box 891, Ramallah, West Bank. Tel: (02) 5747311/2. Fax: (02) 5747310 |
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