Drinking Water Pricing and Consumption. The Environmetrical Evaluation of the Situation in Poland

Abstract

The focus of the paper is on estimation and implementation of economic model applied to municipal water economy. In the paper it was demonstrated how decrease in households’ water consumption after transition to market economy leads to a significant increase of municipal water prices. Water price increase will be convergent process, what was shown in the model. Some consequences of declining water consumption, like decrease of the sewage dropped to the treatment plant, were presented.