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Decreasing Residential Water Use in Stevens Point, Wisconsin

Current policy tools in place

  • we currently do not have any regulations in use

Overview

Pricing Structure

  • Residents pay for what they use
  • Tiered Pricing

Authority tool

Incentive tool

Why consider regulating residents for water efficiency?

  • Water as a necessary component for human life
  • Impending doom of climate change
  • Isn't there a lot of water in Wisconsin?
  • Central Wisconsin specific
  • Introduction: why is this topic important to consider?
  • Overview of tools that are used to regulate residential water use
  • Current Policy Tools in place categorized using the Schnieder and Ingram framework
  • Advocate: what policy tools should be used?

What policies should be used?

  • continue what we are doing until climate change worsens
  • use of more policy tools simultaneously when necessary

Important considerations

Presented by: Melissa Haack

Policy Analyst/Staffer for Katrina Shankland

  • incentive tools: continue with tiered pricing but alter a bit for increased efficiency
  • authority tools: mandatory water use restrictions
  • capacity tools: use water bills as vehicle for learning
  • symbolic and hortatory tools: promotion of decreasing water use

  • Forging relationships between academics and public utilities
  • proper oversight and evaluation
  • continuing research and revising as evidence is found that supports or refutes current tools in place

Policy Options for Regulating Residential Water use

  • Mandatory vs. Voluntary
  • Price Incentives
  • different pricing structures
  • Non-Price: demand management strategies
  • technological fixes
  • mandatory use restrictions
  • education/behavioral change
  • Mixture of price and nonprice
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