Sentence examples for water pricing from inspiring English sources

Greens dislike making the connection between demand management and water pricing.

I guarantee that any local government that introduces variable water pricing will weather this drought more successfully than its neighbors.

Based on wide-ranging experience in developing countries, the United Nations says that even water pricing targeted specifically at poor consumers doesn't tend to work.

These include appropriate water pricing, incentives for conservation, improving farming technologies and practices, capturing stormwaters, reducing leakage in aging distribution networks, limiting groundwater withdrawal, and recycling waste water.

If adopted on a long-term basis, and not just in response to crises, water pricing would allow communities to avoid future price spikes by investing the increased water revenues in additional supply capacity.

Letters are welcome via e-mail to [email protected] rightsSIR – Your otherwise excellent article on water repeated a common misperception about the role of water pricing ("Running dry", September 20th).

Even so, water prices here are among Europe's lowest.

This called for water prices to reflect supply and the cost of delivery by 2010.

Chile and South Africa have both raised water prices substantially, but have acted to protect the poorest.

In June Shanghai raised residential water prices for the first time in seven years, by 25%.

But that is the opposite of what is happening to Bay Area water prices.