Economic evaluation of the new U.S. arsenic standard for drinking water: A disaggregate approach

Water Resources Research

Volumn 46, Issue 10, 2010, Pages

  Cho, Yongsung ^a   Easter, K William ^b   Konishi, Yoshifumi ^c,d  

^a Korea University   (South Korea)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

^c WILLIAMS COLLEGE   (United States)

^d SOPHIA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARSENIC CONCENTRATION; ARSENIC LEVELS; CONTINGENT VALUATIONS; COST DATA; COST ESTIMATE; DRINKING WATER; ECONOMIC EVALUATIONS; ELICITATION METHODS; MINNESOTA; PROTECTION LEVEL; RURAL COMMUNITY; SMALL COMMUNITY;

COST ACCOUNTING; COST BENEFIT ANALYSIS; ECONOMIC ANALYSIS; POTABLE WATER; STANDARDS;

ARSENIC;

ARSENIC; COST-BENEFIT ANALYSIS; DRINKING WATER; HOUSEHOLD SURVEY; IMPLEMENTATION PROCESS; RURAL ECONOMY; WELFARE REFORM;

MINNESOTA; UNITED STATES;

EID: 77958585136     PISSN: 00431397     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2009WR008269     Document Type: Article

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