The journal article is titled “Household Responses to Increased Water Rates during the California Drought” it was written by Ellen M. Pint published by the University of Wisconsin Press. It provides a detailed study regarding the price of water for 599 single-family households in Alameda County over the course of 10 years. The article’s topic was to gain a further understanding of household responses to changing water rates in order to answer their research question which is how will single-family households behavior during the course of California’s drought. The type of data needed to answer the research question is organizational data because the study aims to observe the water demands in order to create accurate maximum likelihood models. This goal was achieved through gathering data through applying mechanical observation. An interval data analysis method was used due to the data’s continuous and logical order. I believe that the researched served its purpose of answering its research question by developing multiple methods to predict reactions the final and most precise being the maximum likelihood model. Although, a concern that I have with the research is it is it is fairly shallow research that provides an understanding of the fiscal repercussions while providing no insight into the non-monetary responses. It is also pertinent to one’s understanding of this research that they heavily consider that the results are determined through educated speculation. Seeing as the research is posed to predict the results that California’s drought will have and does not take into account unexpected changes in the condition of the drought like the fact that recent rainfall has severely altered the severity of the drought thus drastically altering water demands.

Pint, Ellen M. “Household Responses to Increased Water Rates during the
California Drought.” Land Economics, vol. 2, no. 75, May 1999, pp. 246-66.
JSTOR, doi:10.2307/3147009.