Locally uniform water utility pricing. Social and economic issues in an emergent policy in France and Italy Emmanuelle Hellier To cite this version: Emmanuelle Hellier. Locally uniform water utility pricing. Social and economic issues in an emergent policy in France and Italy. Geopolitical, social security and freedom journal, De Gruyter, 2019, 1 (1), pp.152-170. 10.2478/gssfj-2018-0008. halshs-01979139 HAL Id: halshs-01979139 https://halshs.archives-ouvertes.fr/halshs-01979139 Submitted on 12 Jan 2019 HAL is a multi-disciplinary open access L’archive ouverte pluridisciplinaire HAL, est archive for the deposit and dissemination of sci- destinée au dépôt et à la diffusion de documents entific research documents, whether they are pub- scientifiques de niveau recherche, publiés ou non, lished or not. The documents may come from émanant des établissements d’enseignement et de teaching and research institutions in France or recherche français ou étrangers, des laboratoires abroad, or from public or private research centers. publics ou privés. Version initiale non publiée – Working paper Locally uniform water utility pricing. Social and economic issues in an emergent policy in France and Italy. Prof. Emmanuelle HELLIER Department of Geography and Spatial Planning Spaces and Societies UMR 6590 CNRS University of Rennes 2, Place Recteur Henri Le Moal, 35043 Rennes, France
[email protected] Abstract Over the past fifteen or so years, the principles of ‘full-cost recovery’ and ‘the user pays’ have become prominent in water utility pricing across the EU. At the same time, uniform pricing has been introduced by local authorities to boost equality between users in a given territory.