Are rural residents willing to pay enough to improve drinking water quality?

Journal of the American Water Resources Association

Volumn 41, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 729-740

  Cho, Yongsung ^a   Easter, K William ^b   McCann, Laura M J ^c   Homans, Frances ^b  

^a Korea University   (South Korea)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI   (United States)

Author keywords

Decision making; Drinking water quality; Economic valuation; Iron; Regulation; Rural communities; Sulfate; Water policy

Indexed keywords

ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL EFFECTS; QUALITY CONTROL; RURAL AREAS; URBAN PLANNING; WATER QUALITY;

CONTINGENT VALUATION; DRINKING WATER QUALITY; RURAL RESIDENTS; WILLINGNESS TO PAY (WTP);

POTABLE WATER;

DECISION MAKING; DRINKING WATER; RURAL AREA; WATER ECONOMICS; WATER QUALITY; WILLINGNESS TO PAY;

MINNESOTA; NORTH AMERICA; UNITED STATES; WESTERN HEMISPHERE; WORLD;

EID: 21744455191     PISSN: 1093474X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1752-1688.2005.tb03767.x     Document Type: Article

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