Drinking water and sanitation services in high-income countries typically bring widespread
health and other benefits to their populations. Yet gaps in this essential public health …

Rapidly‐growing concern among scholars and policy makers over residential drinking water
affordability in the United States highlights the need to identify and assess the efficacy of …

Across the globe, many low-and middle-income countries are investing in their first
generation of piped water and sanitation infrastructure. At the same time, the water and …

The design of municipal water tariffs requires balancing multiple criteria such as financial
self-sufficiency for the service provider, equity among customers, and economic efficiency for …

Equitable access to safe drinking water remains a key challenge in many urban areas of low-
and middle-income countries. This study aimed to characterize the enabling environment for …

Access to water and sanitation services (WSS) in developing countries is constrained by the
conditions of social inequality and the services affordability for the poorest households …

Viable pathways to universal safely managed drinking water access in rural Africa involve a
blend of infrastructure types, service delivery arrangements, and sources of finance …

Water utilities commonly use complex, nonlinear tariff structures to balance multiple tariff
objectives. When these tariffs change, how will customers respond? Do customers respond …

Despite worldwide advances in urban water security, equitable access to safely managed
drinking water remains a challenge in low-and middle-income countries (LMICs). Piped …

We calculate the first distributional statistics for municipal water use with 14.9 million monthly
billing records for a half million households in Cape Town, South Africa, from 2014 to 2018 …