Due to climate change and environmental pollution, drinking water shortages are looming in the water-rich Netherlands. There is little to be gained on the supply side and it is not certain that price changes will sufficiently reduce demand. However, policies aimed at saving water through technical modifications do seem promising, economists argue in ESB magazine.
Research into pricing water use was commissioned by the Ministry of Infrastructure and Water Management. View the report on that study, which showed that pricing has only a limited effect in stimulating water saving, on GroentenNieuws.