Willingness to pay for water on the guyana east coast

Proceedings of the Institution of Civil Engineers: Water Management

Volumn 163, Issue 6, 2010, Pages 315-323

  Peters, Everson J ^a   Mohamed, Zaheer ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF THE WEST INDIES   (Trinidad and Tobago)

^b Guyana Water Incorporated   (Guyana)

Author keywords

Developing countries; Pipes pipelines; Water supply

Indexed keywords

COST RECOVERY; EAST COAST; EMPLOYMENT STATUS; HOUSEHOLD INCOME; NUMERICAL VALUES; POLICY FORMULATION; POVERTY REDUCTION; PRICE ELASTICITY; PRINCIPAL FACTORS; RAIN WATER HARVESTING; SOCIO-ECONOMICS; STATISTICAL TECHNIQUES; SUSTAINABLE ECONOMIC GROWTH; WATER UTILITY; WILLINGNESS TO PAY;

DEPRECIATION; DEVELOPING COUNTRIES; ELECTRIC UTILITIES; PIPE; WASTEWATER; WATER SUPPLY; WATER SUPPLY SYSTEMS;

ECONOMICS;

DEMAND ANALYSIS; DEVELOPING WORLD; PIPELINE; POLICY STRATEGY; PRICE DYNAMICS; SOCIOECONOMIC STATUS; WATER ECONOMICS; WATER INDUSTRY; WATER SUPPLY; WATER USE; WILLINGNESS TO PAY;

GUYANA;

EID: 77953520460     PISSN: 17417589     EISSN: 17517729     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1680/wama.2010.163.6.315     Document Type: Article

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