Summary: Water Economics

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  • 1.2 Supply and demand

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  • What are causes for a shift in supply curve? (5 things)

    1. Technological change
    2. Labour costs change
    3. Capital costs change
    4. Fiscal interference
    5. Number of producers on the market
  • What is Adam Smiths theory?

    Maximization of individual welfare contributes to maximization of social welfare.
  • What is the Pareto optimal?

    A situation where no individual can be better off without making at least one individual worse of.
  • 1.3 Public Goods and water suppy

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  • What are specific characters of water? (6 things)

    1. It's essential
    2. Non-substitutable
    3. A flux
    4. Varying availability and quality
    5. Difficult to transport
    6. Not a homogenous market
  • What is the diamond-water paradox?

    How can it be that an essential resource like water has a much lower price per unit weight or volume than diamonds?
  • How is the value of water determined?

    By its scarcity
  • What do marginal values represent?

    The change in value as a result of moving to the next unit of consumption or production.
  • What do net values represent?

    The difference between two levels of benefits or between benefits and costs in a particular situations (cba).
  • What are examples of variable costs of water supply?

    Costs for pumping, purification, decontamination, transportation
  • What are examples of supply enhancement strategies?

    1. Build dams
    2. Drill wells
    3. Repair leaky infrastructure
    4. Build desalinization plants

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