8. Considerations on water price incentives
We won't go back over the many and varied studies on the price of water, nor its components, as this would merit a separate article. We will, however, discuss the incentive effect of water pricing on behavioral change.
It is assumed that, by raising the price to an optimal point, consumers (households, industry and agriculture) can be made to adopt environmentally virtuous behavior:
lower consumption ;
lower pollutant emissions.
However, the impact of volumetric pricing on the quantity of water consumed or pollution discharged is negligible when the total amount of the bill represents only a small proportion of a user's production costs or income. In theory, therefore, to be effective, the price charged must be sufficiently high. However, the effectiveness...
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Bibliography
Websites
Economy portal on the Eau France website: http://www.economie.eaufrance.fr/
Regulations
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Law no. 2004-338 of April 21, 2004 transposing Directive 2000/60/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council of October 23, 2000 establishing a framework for Community action in the field of water policy.
Law no. 2015-991 of August 7, 2015 on the new territorial organization of the Republic (JORF of August 8, 2015).
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