水资源预算、水资源的容积分配 基于客户特定特征的客户 而保守的资源标准，则是一种创新 提高用水效率的手段。一旦 由于技术原因被认为是不切实际的 限制、水资源预算与日益增长的区块相关联 费率结构已成功实施 由20多家公用事业公司提供。 本次水资源检查中发现的关键问题 预算及其对北美的潜在价值 水务设施包括:不同的实用 水预算费率结构的方法；这个 这些方法的好处和挑战； 这个 干旱期间水资源预算的潜在用途；和 水预算执行中的重要步骤 过程包括6个参考文献、表格和图表。

Water budgets, volumetric allotments of water to customers based on customer-specific characteristics and conservative resource standards, are an innovative means of improving water-use efficiency. Once thought to be impractical because of technological constraints, water budgets linked with an increasing-block rate structure have been implemented successfully by more than 20 utilities. Key issues identified in this examination of water budgets and their potential value to North American water utilities include: different practical approaches to water budget rate structures; the benefits and challenges of these approaches; the potential uses of water budgets during drought; and, important steps in the water budget implementation process. Includes 6 references, tables, figure.