Recent Trends in Water System Consolidation: Lessons from California

IF 0.7 4区环境科学与生态学 Q4 ENGINEERING, CIVIL

Journal ‐ American Water Works Association Pub Date : 2025-05-13 DOI:10.1002/awwa.2448

Kristin Babson Dobbin, Gregory Pierce, Justin McBride

引用次数: 0

Abstract

In California, consolidation of water systems occurs mostly between proximal systems, often with no prior relationship, motivated by water quality concerns.

Consolidations typically involve very small and/or nonresidential systems, reducing potential economies-of-scale benefits.

Not all communities are accessing consolidation equally: high-resource communities are twice as likely as low-resource communities to be consolidated.

Consolidation is generally associated with rate increases for new customers, whereas rates often remain unchanged for receiving water systems.

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水系统整合的最新趋势：来自加州的经验教训

在加利福尼亚，水系统的整合主要发生在邻近的系统之间，通常没有先前的关系，其动机是水质问题。整合通常涉及非常小的和/或非住宅系统，降低了潜在的规模经济效益。并非所有社区都平等地获得整合：资源丰富的社区获得整合的可能性是资源贫乏社区的两倍。合并通常与新客户的费率增加有关，而接收供水系统的费率通常保持不变。

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Journal ‐ American Water Works Association Multiple-

CiteScore

1.00

自引率

28.60%

发文量

179

审稿时长

4-8 weeks

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