People’s attitude towards paying for water: An empirical study

Pages: 98-101
Aashka Shah (Gujarat National Law University, Gandhinagar, Gujarat)
Vidhi Patel (Gujarat National Law University, Gandhinagar, Gujarat)
Ishan P Shah (Nootan Medical College and Research Institute, Sankalchand Patel University, Visnagar)
Kalgi Shah MD (Nootan Medical College and Research Institute, Sankalchand Patel University, Visnagar)

This paper is a quantitative research on household water metering to understand attitudes, particularly, willingness and affordability of the people, to metering in areas which are presently metered and which are yet to be metered. Having separate water meter for each flat/apartment/society, wastage of water can be avoided and water can be saved. If we provide separate water meter to each household and levy the charges according to the water consumed by the household irrespective of the minimum charge for maintaining the common area/lawn, then each household will be reasonably cautious in consumption of water which will result in minimum water wastage. Therefore, the households which do not consume water judiciously will have to pay more, thus establishing a system where liability to pay for the water consumed is based on the intensity of consumption of each household. A change in attitude towards saving water will be visible by bringing in accountability. Therefore, this research tries to examine people’s willingness to accept a norm which will make water metering compulsory. This practise will prove to be beneficial in the long run