USC Study on Water Rates Statewide with Public Demand Data

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Research question

Investigation of water pricing, aggregate demand and future climate.

Timeline

Goal is to have preliminary results by Sanford and use that to help incentivize future data sharing.

Dataset

Key is the cleaned and supplemented supplier report data

The backbone of that data set is from the SWRCB conservation reporting: https://www.waterboards.ca.gov/water_issues/programs/conservation_portal/conservation_reporting.html

Water pricing information is from our pricing survey joined with the above reporting data: https://github.com/California-Data-Collaborative/Open-Water-Rate-Specification

Income data has been aggregated from the 2016 ACS block groups up to the retailer boundaries

Evapotranspiration is an inverse distance-weighted average of measurements from nearby CIMIS stations.