Wasserverbrauch privater Haushalte in Deutschland: Eine empirische Mikroanalyse

Abstract Germany is a rather water-rich country. Nevertheless, climatic changes might make it necessary to use water resources carefully in the future, especially times of drought. Against this background, paper estimates price elasticity household consumption, differentiating between households that have rough knowledge prices and do not. Based on about 1,100 observations for living single-family houses using sum cubic meter wastewater as measure, we find moderate but statistically significantly non-zero -0.102. Households tend exhibit higher elasticity, while without not show significant response their consumption. Prices can thus only be used limited extent means controlling