Evaluating increasing block tariff pricing policies when applied to multiple household connections |
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| Authors: | Emmanuel A Donkor |
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| Affiliation: | 1. Department of Civil Engineering , College of Engineering, Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology, KNUST , Kumasi, Ghana;2. Engineering Management and Systems Engineering, School of Engineering and Applied Sciences, The George Washington University , Washington, DC, USA eadonkor@gwmail.gwu.edu |
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| Abstract: | This paper develops a model for evaluating the consequences of increasing block tariff pricing policies when multiple households share a connection and applies it to a sample from Kumasi, Ghana. Results show that for any given consumption, a household's average share of total monthly water bill for shared connections can either be higher or lower than its single-household equivalent. Significant differences between the average and single-household equivalent bills were found in these cases, although this difference is under-estimated if the sample is not disaggregated by payment group. |
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| Keywords: | increasing block tariffs equity water multiple households shared connections Ghana |
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