Subject(s): Municipal water supply -- Economic aspects -- Management -- World Population -- Urban Water Supply -- Economists, economic quantity of water, long run and short run water supply, new water resources -- Hydrology and water supply : World population and water resources, subsurface water, mining of ground water, storage of water in aquifers, dams and reservoirs, water quality issues, waste water treatment, increasing costs of new sources of municipal water -- Price rationing : Water scarcity, cost of water, rate structure, conservation policy , economic efficiency and equity, water rates and inflation, conservation policy , reclaimed water use -- Water supply economics : Water supply and sanitation systems, structure of water supply costs, cost of water supply alternatives, costs in economic analysis -- Elasticity of demand for water resources managers : price elasticity of demand, cross price eleasticity of demand, income elasticity of demand, economic modeling to estimate elasticity -- Water transactions as an urban water supply strategy : Alternative ways to structure water acquisition, role of litigation, policy changes to facilitate water acquisitions, criteria for desirable urban water transactions -- Market structure and price regulation : Advertising by water providers, customer classes and rate design, derived demand, cost structure and provider mergers, rate and service regulations, regulatory agency conflicts -- Industrial and commercial water demands : Features of industrial and commercial water use, economic determinants of industrial and commercial water use -- Public drinking water in US: Regulation of US public drinking water, current US drinking water standards, challenges facing US public drinking water system -- Water system organization and financial decision making : Monopoly market is most likely, private v/s public provision of water, taxes, government spending and water utilities, urban development, public health issues, benefit cost and project analysis, consideration for capital repayment by general taxation, benefit cost analysis -- Drinking water disinfection in United States- balancing infectious disease , cancer and costs, market and nonmarket failures : Waterbore infectious disease in US, disinfection byproducts, EPA's recent microbial contamination rules, EPA's recent disinfection byproducts rule -- Effects of land subsidence in greater Houston area : Land subsidies due to aquitard drainage, regional setting, Texas and Houston act to arrest subsidence -- Solving groundwater overdraft in Arizona urban areas : Arizona groundwater management act and AMAs, safe yield concept and problem of measurement, commodity value of water in Arizona -- Urban water in Israel -- British experience : Water supply models, regulation, united kingdom water companies -- Economic and engineering challenges in Urban water supply, groundwater overdraft, soft path water management, avialability of water service, security of supply, creating a legal environment for urban water supply management, waste water recycling, markets and prices, future management, role of political economy in urban water management