Sounds like youre at least toe deep into the water world, but Im gonna disagree with you on the effectiveness of tiered rate structures.
I haven’t seen any evidence that they are effective at the high end of consumption. I also haven’t seen any evidence that districts are really interested in curtailing that chunk of consumption. These districts look at thing the way most neoliberals do and these over consumers give them more revenue than the lower consumung customers. So from a districts perspective, if revenue is the goal, you want to crack down on the bottom teir of consumer, and have over consumption at the highest rier (assuming you are being required to reduce overall consumption, like most districts in California).
So in spite of a progressive pricing structure, the result is highly regressive.
Sounds like youre at least toe deep into the water world, but Im gonna disagree with you on the effectiveness of tiered rate structures.
I haven’t seen any evidence that they are effective at the high end of consumption. I also haven’t seen any evidence that districts are really interested in curtailing that chunk of consumption. These districts look at thing the way most neoliberals do and these over consumers give them more revenue than the lower consumung customers. So from a districts perspective, if revenue is the goal, you want to crack down on the bottom teir of consumer, and have over consumption at the highest rier (assuming you are being required to reduce overall consumption, like most districts in California).
So in spite of a progressive pricing structure, the result is highly regressive.