TY  - BOOK
AU  - Groves,David G.
AU  - Griffin,James
AU  - Hajiamiri,Sara
ED  - Rand Environment, Energy, and Economic Development (Program)
TI  - Estimating the value of water-use efficiency in the Intermountain West
T2  - Technical report
SN  - 9780833044426
AV  - TC425.M66 C35 2008eb
U1  - 363.6/10979 22
PY  - 2008///
CY  - Santa Monica, CA
PB  - Rand Corp.
KW  - Water efficiency
KW  - Great Basin
KW  - Water resources development
KW  - Water-supply
KW  - Water utilities
KW  - Économie d'eau
KW  - Grand Bassin
KW  - Ressources en eau
KW  - Exploitation
KW  - Eau
KW  - Approvisionnement
KW  - Services d'eau
KW  - TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING
KW  - Environmental
KW  - Water Supply
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - POLITICAL SCIENCE
KW  - Public Policy
KW  - Environmental Policy
KW  - fast
KW  - United States
KW  - Electronic books
N1  - "Sponsored by the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation."; "Rand Environment, Energy, and Economic Development."; Includes bibliographical references (pages 67-69); Introduction -- Denver water case study -- Case-study methodology -- Results -- Summary and conclusions -- Appendix A: Avoided-cost model -- Appendix B: Environmental-benefit modeling -- Appendix C: Impact of supply and demand changes on long-run avoided costs -- Appendix D: Efficiency-program cost estimates; Electronic reproduction; [Place of publication not identified]; HathiTrust Digital Library; 2010
N2  - "Evaluating the cost-effectiveness of water-efficiency programs can be difficult, because not all the benefits are easily quantified. This report presents an economic framework based on two tools from the California Urban Water Conservation Council to estimate the avoided costs and environmental benefits of an agency's efficiency programs. The report evaluates the benefits of Denver Water efficiency programs and uses an exploratory modeling approach to accommodate the significant uncertainty in such estimations. The results of this study suggest that the inclusion of long-run avoided costs and environmental benefits is critical to fully recognizing the value of water-use efficiency programs. The authors find that evaluating only the short-run avoided costs leads to the conclusion that many water-efficiency projects already a part of Denver Water's 10-year conservation plan are not cost-effective. When long-run avoided costs and environmental and recreational benefits were factored in, all but two Denver Water programs were estimated to be cost-effective. The timing of projected water savings from efficiency programs is also critical. Water savings from programs that concentrate savings during summer months, when water is scarcer, should be valued higher than saving from programs that lead to more uniform water savings throughout the year, because these water savings reduce peak water needs."--Publisher's website
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