Economic Water Demand Functions to Value Urban Water Scarcity along Utah's Wasatch Front


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Owners: Sarah NulliUTAH Data Manager
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Created: Jun 11, 2018 at 8:08 p.m.
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Published date: Oct 19, 2018 at 6:15 p.m.
DOI: 10.4211/hs.a6921eef1cbf4968b271d972bd997ab3
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Abstract

Representing urban water demands economically is useful to understand how anticipated changes like population growth, conservation, water development, climate change, and environmental water demands may affect water deliveries and scarcity. Utah is the second driest state in the nation, while per capita water use is near the highest in the nation, averaging 167 gallons per person per day. This implies that creative water management will be ongoing in Utah’s future. Urban economic loss functions are estimated using residential demand functions for Utah’s Wasatch Front Metropolitan Area, which includes Logan, Salt Lake City, Ogden, Layton, Provo, and Orem urban regions. Water price, volume of water applied at that price, urban population, and price elasticity data are presented. Results show seasonal residential water demand functions and seasonal urban (residential, industrial, institutional, and commercial) economic loss functions for Logan, Ogden, Salt Lake City, and Provo metropolitan areas. Limitations to this method are outlined and discussion focuses on estimating urban water demand functions and potential economic losses input into hydro-economic models and ecological-economic models to evaluate promising solutions to Utah’s persistent water problems.

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Spatial

Coordinate System/Geographic Projection:
WGS 84 EPSG:4326
Coordinate Units:
Decimal degrees
Place/Area Name:
Wasatch Front
North Latitude
42.0083°
East Longitude
-110.8159°
South Latitude
39.7070°
West Longitude
-114.0349°
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Funding Agencies

This resource was created using funding from the following sources:
Agency Name Award Title Award Number
National Science Foundation iUTAH-innovative Urban Transitions and Aridregion Hydro-sustainability EPSCoR IIA-1208732

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Null, S. (2018). Economic Water Demand Functions to Value Urban Water Scarcity along Utah's Wasatch Front, HydroShare, https://doi.org/10.4211/hs.a6921eef1cbf4968b271d972bd997ab3

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