摘要:

This case involved tenants who had applied for water service to their leased premises and had tendered the required deposit. The city water department denied the application based on a city ordinance that required the property owner to sign the tenant's application for water and to agree to be ultimately responsible for payment for all water provided. When the landlord refused to sign, the tenant sued to compel the city to provide water service. The trial court ruled against the tenants, and the tenants appealed the ruling. The Supreme Court of Utah upheld the constitutionality of the ordinance, stating that the city was authorized to operate a water utility but that it did not have a legal duty to provide water service to all members of the public.

ISSN:0003-150X    

DOI:10.1002/j.1551-8833.1987.tb02804.x

出版商:Wiley    

年代:1987

数据来源: WILEY

摘要:

A fanciful tale of California's water history is presented.

ISSN:0003-150X    

DOI:10.1002/j.1551-8833.1987.tb02808.x

出版商:Wiley    

年代:1987

数据来源: WILEY

摘要:

This discussion took place during the annual conference in Denver on June 23, 1986. Participants were Robert F. Banker, partner in the consulting firm of Black&Veatch, Kansas City, Mo.; Duane L. Georgeson, manager of the water system of the Los Angeles Department of Water and Power; and Donald L. Schlenger, director of development and research at the Hackensack Water Company, Hackensack, N.J., and vice‐president for corporate development of United Water Resources, the corporate parent of the Hackensack Water Company. William H. Miller, manager of the Denver Water Department, was moderator.

ISSN:0003-150X    

DOI:10.1002/j.1551-8833.1987.tb02809.x

出版商:Wiley    

年代:1987

数据来源: WILEY

ISSN:0003-150X    

DOI:10.1002/j.1551-8833.1987.tb02810.x

出版商:Wiley    

年代:1987

数据来源: WILEY

摘要:

Barrow Utilities and Electric Coop Inc. (BUECI) operates the northernmost municipal potable water treatment system in the United States. Using a desalination plant with a complex pretreatment system to correct a bewildering array of water quality problems under severe environmental constraints, BUECI provides for the treatment and distribution of potable water to the arctic community of Barrow, Alaska.

ISSN:0003-150X    

DOI:10.1002/j.1551-8833.1987.tb02811.x

出版商:Wiley    

年代:1987

数据来源: WILEY

摘要:

In 1985, the North Marin (Calif.) Water District conducted research to compare the use of water, labor, fertilizer, fuel, and herbicide for traditional landscapes and for water conserving projects. Although the dollar savings attributed to fuel and herbicide were small, results showed that considerable savings could be achieved by the use of a water conserving landscape design: an annual savings of $75 per dwelling unit in a condominium or townhouse development. The reduction in water and labor costs accounted for more than 80 percent of the total savings. A strong correlation was found between the perimeter of the turf and water use, indicating that turf perimeter may be the best parameter for defining a water conserving landscape.

ISSN:0003-150X    

DOI:10.1002/j.1551-8833.1987.tb02812.x

出版商:Wiley    

年代:1987

数据来源: WILEY

摘要:

Pricing is the primary process by which water utilities recover costs. Unfortunately, costing and rate design practices in the water industry lag behind practices in other public utility sectors. This article focuses on water rate innovations, with emphasis on the integration of marginal cost and traditional average cost pricing. Pricing and costing developments in other public utility sectors are discussed in relation to their applicability to water utilities.

ISSN:0003-150X    

DOI:10.1002/j.1551-8833.1987.tb02813.x

出版商:Wiley    

年代:1987

数据来源: WILEY

摘要:

Consumer attitudes toward water conservation were surveyed in seven northeastern Colorado communities to determine whether relationships exist between (1) attitudes and type of community or (2) attitudes and socioeconomic variables. The water conservation alternatives presented to these users included metering, price increases, restrictions on water use, restrictions on lawn size, controls on population growth, and reuse of treated wastewater for cotable purposes. Preferences for development of additional water supplies were also included in the survey. All but one of the conservation alternatives, reuse for drinking purposes, were favored by more than half of the respondents. Consumers in communities with lawn watering restrictions were more willing to install water‐saving devices or to change landscaping than were consumers in unrestricted communities. Respondents who were metered strongly favored meters, and, to a lesser degree, flat‐rate customers preferred the flat rate. Metered users also favored price increases, whereas flat‐rate users did not. Restrictions on population growth were preferred more strongly by rural and flat‐rate consumers than urban and metered consumers. Respondents with less than a high school education or earning incomes of less than $15 000 per year more often opposed the various water conservation alternatives. In addition, retired or disabled persons did not approve of such alternatives as price increases or installation of water‐saving devices.

ISSN:0003-150X    

DOI:10.1002/j.1551-8833.1987.tb02814.x

出版商:Wiley    

年代:1987

数据来源: WILEY

摘要:

In the past, water engineers and planners had to rely on estimates of water use based mostly on laboratory tests of low‐flow fixtures. These estimates span a range of 300 percent, causing confusion and a general lack of confidence in water conservation techniques. With the completed US Department of Housing and Urban Development projects as a basis, water planners can now calculate the benefits of water conservation programs with more confidence that predicted savings will be realized.

ISSN:0003-150X    

DOI:10.1002/j.1551-8833.1987.tb02815.x

出版商:Wiley    

年代:1987

数据来源: WILEY

摘要:

The Edwards Underground Water District and the city of San Antonio, Texas, conducted a regionwide conservation program during the summer and fall of 1984. The program's goals were to educate the public about the potential water scarcity problem and to promote largely voluntary conservation measures. To evaluate acceptance of the program by the public, a regional survey was administered that included questions regarding knowledge about and attitudes toward water resources development and conservation, the types of information sources people use and prefer to use about conservation practices, and the conservation measures people actually implemented under the impetus of the program. Some considerations relevant to conservation programs throughout the state and elsewhere are discussed. Many institutional and economic factors affect water conservation policy in general, and it was concluded that water conservation must be assigned full resource status in order to implement effective institutional policy options.

ISSN:0003-150X    

DOI:10.1002/j.1551-8833.1987.tb02816.x

出版商:Wiley    

年代:1987

数据来源: WILEY