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Half Day Workshop: 9:00-12.30: Urban Water Pricing
Dr. Richard Tooth, Consulting Principal, LECG
About your workshop host: Richard Tooth is a consulting principal based in LECG's Sydney office. Dr Tooth has consulted and written extensively on economic policy issues. His range of expertise includes regulatory and competition policy, network economics, consumer behaviour and applied econometrics. While he has experience across a range of industries, he has particular expertise with regards to water, natural resources, insurance, and other financial services. His recent work in water includes looking at issues related to estimating the demand for water, water quality, developer charges and scarcity pricing.
He has consulted to a range of private and public organisations. These have recently included Commonwealth departments, state departments (including departments in Victoria, New South Wales, Queensland and Western Australia) and other organisations including private industry, industry associations and government corporations. Prior to joining the LECG, Dr Tooth worked on economic regulation and policy issues with the economic consultancies, Allen Consulting Group, and the Centre for Law and Economics Ltd. He also worked with the strategy consulting firm, Booz Allen and Hamilton and has worked directly in private and government organisations.
About your workshop: Urban Water Pricing
This would examine all aspects of urban water pricing and the related issue of water allocation and demand management.
Issues covered would include:
- Prices and charges including:
> Volumetric water pricing (including scarcity pricing)
> Externality pricing
> Access pricing
> Developer charges / contributions - Institutional arrangements
- Water allocation and rights
- Price setting processes
- Implications of different pricing approaches
