Interpreting the Spent Cost for Water Supply and Transmission Projects in Semnan Province

Document Type : Original Article

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1 School of Civil Engineering, Faculty of Engineering, University of Tehran

2 Managing director/Semnan regional water company

Abstract

Significant shortage of water resources capacities, especially in central Iran’s desert basins, necessitates construction and implementation of water supply and transmission facilities. Costs of such projects have effects on water pricing and consumption management. For water, with final consumption nature, achieving real price based on demands is important in encouraging the private sector contribution and improvement of drinking water consumption pattern. Current study, based on documented database, calculates spent cost for accomplishing such above-mentioned projects in Semnan province, Iran. Results showed that for water supply and transmission projects, there was a significant difference between spent cost and common established tariff. Actually, it was confirmed that currently, water is not considered as an economic good with meaningful concept of benefit or loss. According to the current pricing system, improvements in consumption management could not be expected, especially in drinking water uses.

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Journal of Water and Wastewater Science and Engineering
Volume 4, Issue 2
July 2019
Pages 27-36

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  • Receive Date: 21 November 2018
  • Revise Date: 03 June 2019
  • Accept Date: 08 June 2019

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