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Managing Urban Water Supply (Water Science and Technology Library Book 46) by Donald E. Agthe, R. Bruce Billings, Nathan Buras (auth.), Donald E. Agthe, R. Bruce Billings, Nathan Buras (eds.) is a nonfiction available to read on EtoBox.

What is Managing Urban Water Supply (Water Science and Technology Library Book 46) about?

We, the editors, have long believed that a strong knowledge of relatively simple economic and engineering concepts is valuable in solving water management problems. The lack of such knowledge has been apparent to us in some of the journal articles, research proposals and books we have reviewed. The articles which have been written concerning specific local water economies and management issues are scattered over a wide variety of journals, making them hard to access. Most of the extensive water resources literature is concerned with large regional water projects or with narrow technical and regional issues. This book was written to make practical economic and engineering concepts readily available to urban water supply managers, thereby filling a gap in the available literature. It is concerned with decisions made daily, monthly, or annually by managers of urban water supply systems. The book includes basic chapters presenting supply and cost concepts, calculation of demand elasticities, use of marketing concepts, public goods analysis, water markets, industrial water demand and the use of price in water conservation. The authors have included multiple examples of how these concept

Who reads Managing Urban Water Supply (Water Science and Technology Library Book 46)?

Author

Donald E. Agthe, R. Bruce Billings, Nathan Buras (auth.), Donald E. Agthe, R. Bruce Billings, Nathan Buras (eds.)

Publisher

Springer Netherlands Imprint : Springer

Published

2003

Language

EN

ISBN

9789048164707

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

Economics, Science, Business