Do Water Customers Get What They Pay For? Institutional Politics and the Price-Quality Tradeoff in Drinking Water

• In Event: Policy Potpourri IV

Brief Overview

Analysis of U.S. water utility prices and Safe Drinking Water Act compliance demonstrates that regulatory institutions tie investor-owned utilities prices to quality, but local politics govern the price-quality trade-off for municipal utilities.

Authors

• Manny Teodoro, University of Wisconsin-Madison

• Robin Saywitz, Texas A&M