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Conservation and Distributional Consequences of Pricing Scarce Water During DroughtsDerek C. Wietelman, Casey J. Wichman, Daniel A. BrentWorking Paper 25-07 March 2025About the Authors Derek C. Wietelman is a PhD candidate in the Department of Agricultural and Resource Economics at the University of Maryland, College Park. He is an applied microeconomist specializing in environmental and resource economics. His current research uses applied econometric methods to understand how household demand for essential resources like energy and water are shaped by price and nonprice policy interventions. He also works on topics related to the economics of water quality.Casey J. Wichman is an associate professor in the School of Economics at the Georgia Institute of Technology and a university fellow at Resources for the Future. He is an applied microeconomist working on issues at the intersection of environmental and public economics. His research focuses on how people interact with the natural and built environment, and what that behavior reveals about the value of environmental amenities. Wichman’s research spans water and energy demand management, climate change impacts and policy, urban transportation, public goods provision, and outdoor recreation.Daniel A. Brent is an associate professor in the Department of Agricultural Economics, Sociology, and Education at Pennsylvania State University. He is an applied microeconomist with a focus on environmental economics and water resources.Acknowledgements We thank the California Data Collaborative (CaDC) and the two anonymous member utilities for facilitating access to the billing data. We are grateful for multiple conversations with Christopher Tull at CaDC, as well as multiple other staff members at CaDC and the two utilities, who helped us to interpret the data and understand the context surrounding drought policies enacted during our study period. We thank Fiona Burlig, Bryan Pratt, Saif Ali, Anna Alberini, and seminar participants at the 2019 Urban Water Demand Roundtable, Arizona State University, ETH Zurich, the 2019 AERE Summer Conference, the 2020 Seminar in Water Economics Online (SWELL) Series, the 2022 WEAI Annual Conference, University of Maryland, and the Inter-American Development Bank for helpful comments.This work is/was supported by the USDA National Institute of Food and Agriculture and Hatch Appropriations under Project #PEN04951 and Accession #7006541. Any remaining errors are our ownAbout RFFResources for the Future (RFF) is an independent, nonprofit research institution in Washington, DC. Its mission is to improve environmental, energy, and natural resource decisions through impartial economic research and policy engagement. RFF is committed to being the most widely trusted source of research insights and policy solutions leading to a healthy environment and a thriving economy. Working papers are research materials circulated by their authors for purposes of information and discussion. T