【摘要】 2008年—2009年我国大部分城市上调水价,人们对水价上调的合理性也提出了质疑。以河北省为例,探讨了政府城市水价管制政策对缓解水资源短缺的效果,分析了水价管制对居民用水需求的影响。分析表明,水价的上调可以在一定程度上促使居民节约用水,减少对水的消费需求,但其作用有限。要解决水资源短缺,缓解水资源供求矛盾,减少水资源不足所造成的经济、社会和环境损失,仅凭借水价管制还不够,需要其它政策措施加以配合才能达到较好效果。更多还原

【Abstract】 The water price has been increased in majority cities of China during 2008 to 2009 and residents also have doubt on the rationality of the risen price.Taking Hebei province as an example,the article discusses the effects of the regulating policy for urban water price to release the shortage of water resources,and analyzes the impact to residents′ demand for water.The result demonstrates that the increasing of water price can impel the residents to save on water and decrease the demand for water,but the effect is limited.Therefore,in order to solve the shortage of water in China,release the contradiction between demand & supply of water resource,and minimum the economic,social & environmental destruction brought by the shortage of water resource,not only the price regulating is necessary,but also the other policies should be required.更多还原