@article{Aisbett:107850,
      recid = {107850},
      author = {Aisbett, Emma and Steinhauser, Ralf},
      title = {Does anybody give a dam? The importance of public  awareness for urban water conservation during drought},
      address = {2011},
      number = {448-2016-33884},
      series = {Environmental Economics Research Hub},
      pages = {35},
      year = {2011},
      abstract = {Demand management has been of interest in dry climates  such as Australia, Spain
and the Western United States for  decades. It is particularly important to understand policy  options during drought conditions, as drought periods have  a disproportionate effect on supply infrastructure  decisions. While water‐conservation campaigns aimed at  inducing voluntary consumption reductions are almost  universally employed by water managers in times of supply  constraint, voluntary measures are generally dismissed in  the economics literature as ineffective. We argue that the  robust positive correlation between dam levels and  consumption after controlling for policy changes suggests  that there is a significant
component of voluntary  conservation. Furthermore, omitting dam levels from  regressions may bias estimated impacts of policy changes.},
      url = {http://ageconsearch.umn.edu/record/107850},
      doi = {https://doi.org/10.22004/ag.econ.107850},
}