Since 2014
Price Elasticity of the Residential Water Demand. Case-Study: Investment Project in Cluj County, Romania
Transylvanian Review of Administrative Sciences
View Archive Info| Field | Value | |
| Title |
Price Elasticity of the Residential Water Demand. Case-Study: Investment Project in Cluj County, Romania
|
|
| Creator |
CIOMOŞ, Vasile Iuliu; PhD, President of Romanian Water Association, Bucharest, Romania CIATARÂŞ, Dorin Marcel; PhD, General Director of Cluj – Sălaj Water Company, Cluj-Napoca, Romania CIOMOŞ, Alina Oana; PhD, CIDC Executive Secretary, Romanian Water Association, Bucharest, Romania |
|
| Subject |
residential water consumption; water tariff; price elasticity of demand; sustainable development; Cluj-Napoca.
|
|
| Description |
In Romania, local authorities and the newly established Regional Operators one of them being S.C. Compania de Apă Someş S.A., are required to fully comply with EU regulations concerning water and wastewater quality. In order to meet these requirements in due time, a lot of investment projects have to be prepared and implemented. The financing of these investments requires a progressive increase of the tariffs. In the last ten years, in Romania, the tariffs for the water services have been significantly augmented, more than in any other East European country. In the same time, a substantial reduction of the residential water consumption, measured in liters per capita per day, has been observed. In this article, the price elasticity of residential water demand for water services was analyzed, given its importance in the framework of the feasibility studies for investments to be made in order to insure compliance with EU water and wastewater Directives. In the same time, considerations with regard to the evolution of the tariff for water services and of the residential water demand are provided, with the aim of better explaining the context in which these variables evolve.
|
|
| Publisher |
Babes Bolyai University
|
|
| Contributor |
—
|
|
| Date |
2012-06-01
|
|
| Type |
info:eu-repo/semantics/article
info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion Peer-reviewed Article |
|
| Format |
application/pdf
|
|
| Identifier |
http://rtsa.ro/tras/index.php/tras/article/view/61
|
|
| Source |
Transylvanian Review of Administrative Sciences; 2012: Issue No. 36 E/June; 67-76
1842-2845 |
|
| Language |
eng
|
|
| Relation |
http://rtsa.ro/tras/index.php/tras/article/view/61/57
|
|
| Rights |
Copyright (c) 2014 Transylvanian Review of Administrative Sciences
|
|