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1	An Analysis Of Water Rates And Home Prices: A Case Study Ho, Valerie 01 January 2015 (has links) The issue of the rising Claremont water rates has been a heated topic of debate over the last couple of years. This study is part of a larger body of literature that seeks to determine the extent to which a location-specific amenity or dis-amenity is capitalized into housing values, and specifically aims to examine the relationship between water rates and home prices in Claremont. To do this, it uses houses in La Verne, where water rates have not been rising as rapidly, as a control group. Specifically, the regression model looks at whether the differences in the water bills between Claremont and La Verne are associated with the differences in the house prices between Claremont and La Verne. In doing so, it also provides an estimate of the price discount faced by houses in Claremont due to the water rate. Claremont Water Rates House Prices Economics Real Estate
2	Možnosti využití šedých vod / Possibilities of using gray waters Bogáňová, Ida January 2012 (has links) Greywater is waste water from washbasins, showers, baths, kitchen sinks, dishwashers and washing machines. This can be treated to gain so-called white water, which can for example be used for flushing toilets and urinals, watering greenery or for cleaning. The subject of this diploma thesis is to state the possibilities for utilisation of greywater. In the first part of this thesis, research will be elaborated on the given topic. In the following chapters, I would like to state examples of the possibilities for utilisation of greywater. The practical part should consist of design of a system for treatment of greywater in a specific building.
3	Economic Alternatives in Solving the U. S.-Mexico Colorado River Water Salinity Problem (invited) Martin, William E. 20 April 1974 (has links) From the Proceedings of the 1974 Meetings of the Arizona Section - American Water Resources Assn. and the Hydrology Section - Arizona Academy of Science - April 19-20, 1974, Flagstaff, Arizona / A proposed desalting plant is an engineering solution to the effects of a problem which could have been avoided and even now could be reduced on the farm. Water costing $125 per acre-foot will be delivered to Mexico to grow wheat, cotton, garden crops, alfalfa and safflower, of which the average value added per acre-foot was estimated at $80 for cotton and garden crops and $14 for wheat, alfalfa and safflower. The U.S. government, instead of building the desalting complex, could accomplish its purpose just as well by paying each farmer in the Yuma area, in return for the farmers reducing their drainage flow by whatever method they see fit, $114 per acre per year for the next 50 years. With proper management on the farm, the costs of managing salinity need not be high. Hydrology -- Arizona. Water resources development -- Arizona. Hydrology -- Southwestern states. Desalination Salinity Alternative planning Cost comparisons Colorado River Irrigation water Alternative water use Water utilization Water management (applied) Cost analysis Water rates Project planning Alternative costs Saline water Desalination plants Mexico Water quality Water pollution sources Water reuse Drainage water Irrigation programs Water policy
4	A Rational Water Policy for Desert Cities Matlock, W. G. 20 April 1974 (has links) From the Proceedings of the 1974 Meetings of the Arizona Section - American Water Resources Assn. and the Hydrology Section - Arizona Academy of Science - April 19-20, 1974, Flagstaff, Arizona / Four sources of water supply for desert cities are rainfall, runoff, groundwater, and imported water, and the potential use for each varies. The government can institute various policy changes to eliminate or reduce the imbalance between water supply and demand. Restrictions should be placed on water-use luxuries such as swimming pools, subdivision lakes, fountains, etc. Water pricing should be progressive; each unit of increased use above a reasonable minimum should be charged for at an increasing rate. Runoff from individual properties, homes, storage, and supermarkets should be minimized through the use of onsite recharge wells, and various collection methods should be initiated. A campaign to acquaint the general public with a new water policy must be inaugurated. Hydrology -- Arizona. Water resources development -- Arizona. Hydrology -- Southwestern states. Arid lands Water shortage Water supply Water policy Water conservation Regulation Water resources Governments Planning Water allocation (policy) Water utilization Rainfall Runoff Groundwater Water wells Groundwater recharge Groundwater availability Imported water Water demand Water rates Urban runoff Arizona Desert cities Tucson (Ariz)
5	Rising Energy Prices, Water Demand by Peri-Urban Agriculture, and Implications for Urban Water Supply: The Tucson Case Ayer, H. W., Gapp, D. W. 15 April 1978 (has links) From the Proceedings of the 1978 Meetings of the Arizona Section - American Water Resources Assn. and the Hydrology Section - Arizona Academy of Science - April 14-15, 1978, Flagstaff, Arizona / The city of Tucson, Arizona, the largest city in the U.S. to meet its water needs entirely from diminishing underground sources, is presently experiencing increasing water rates and the political turmoil associated with those increases. With focus upon this increasingly serious problem, production function analysis and static linear programming are used here to estimate the impact of rising energy prices on farm profits, cropping patterns and irrigation water used in the Avra Valley, a periurban irrigated region adjacent to Tucson, in an effort to evaluate the impact of this community upon Tucson 's municipal water demand. It is concluded that as energy prices increase and land is removed from agricultural production within the Avra Valley, Tucson 's economic position will be bolstered in at least three ways: (1) there will be more water available, (2) the price which the city must pay for farmland in order to gain control of the underlying water should be diminished and the quantity of farmland for sale increased, and (3) with fewer people involved in irrigated agriculture, legal conflicts between competing users will be diminished. Hydrology -- Arizona. Water resources development -- Arizona. Hydrology -- Southwestern states. Costs Cost-benefit analysis Economic prediction Economic justification Water supply Hydrologic budget Urban hydrology Water rates Groundwater budget Political constraints Linear programming Irrigation water Municipal water Competing uses Legal aspects Tucson Arizona Associated costs Electric power costs

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