Urban Water Supply Price Control Study

To the urban water supply industry, the product has commodity characteristic property and common necessary characteristic property. Then the water resource is restraint and has intense correlation of environmental protection. The characteristic property monopolizing naturally have restricted the competitive system. Therefore, the urban water price regulation exactly is the core of the urban water problem . The composition of the water price, the mechanism and price regulation are worthy for study. For a long time, the deploy of the water resource is according to planned economy. The original water resource property right, water price regulation system and the pricing mechanism are not adapt to new system. In recent years, the water-saving price reformation and the effect are appearance. For the urgency of the reform, the intensitive reform is enlarged. The priority of the reform is to building the rational water price regulation system.Combining with the investigation of the water supply industry to Changsha, the article is carry out the analysis of the problem and the cause with the water price regulation.The problem is shown mainly in the field of the following: Water price deflects the cost, the water rate owes a fee increasing, the water-saving effect is not notable and so. on. The cause leading to the problem is in some aspects: the government water supply price regulation system is not smooth; the cost manage system is not improve and perfect: the price adjustment procedure is not standardize very much , the pricing method is not scientifical, the water price cost supervise is not completely etc. Specifically for the problem above, the article is draw lessons of the experience of USA,United Kingdom,French ,First is to complete the price manage system , to standardize the price adjustment procedure , to complete the price listening system; The second is to form the scientifical price adjustment model; The third is strengthen the supervise of the water price cost; The Fourth is to introduct the competes , deepen the reform of the water supply industry. In short, to build a reasonable price regulation system , reform the supervise system of the water price, is the way of adapting to the market , is also the basic approach for the urban water supply industry to inprove itself.