Abstract
Continued provision of low-cost municipal and industrial water is anticipated to be a challenge for cities in the coming decades. To address this, many are considering large-scale infrastructure projects to expand their water supply. In this article, we develop a general equilibrium model to evaluate the economy-wide distributional impacts of water infrastructure projects. The model framework includes a regulated water utility with a cost-recovery mandate and captures the trade-off between the immediate costs of financing infrastructure projects and the long-term costs that water scarcity imposes on the regional economy. We apply the model to an on-going water infrastructure project in Las Vegas, Nevada.
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