Reforming the wastewater treatment sector in Italy: Implications of plant size, structure, and scale economies

Water Resources Research

Volumn 39, Issue 10, 2003, Pages

  Fraquelli, Giovanni ^a,c   Giandrone, Roberto ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EASTERN PIEDMONT   (Italy)

^b Italian Energy Authority   (Italy)

^c CNR   (Italy)

Author keywords

Operating costs; Pollution treatment; Scale economies; Wastewater

Indexed keywords

COSTS; PUBLIC POLICY; SEWAGE SLUDGE; WASTEWATER TREATMENT;

COST FUNCTIONS; WATER INDUSTRY;

WATER RESOURCES;

ECONOMICS; EFFLUENT TREATMENT; URBAN AREA; WASTEWATER TREATMENT PLANT; WATER INDUSTRY;

EID: 1542541529     PISSN: 00431397     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2003WR002037     Document Type: Article

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