Estimating the costs of collective treatment of wastewater: The case of Walloon Region (Belgium)

Water Science and Technology

Volumn 62, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 640-648

  Dogot, Thomas ^a   Xanthoulis, Yanni ^a   Fonder, Nathalie ^a   Xanthoulis, Dimitri ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LIÈGE   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Collective wastewater treatment facilities; Exploitation cost; Investment cost; Walloon Region

Indexed keywords

BELGIUM; DECISION MAKERS; EXPLOITATION COST; INTEGRATED APPROACH; INVESTMENT COST; INVESTMENT COSTS; STRATEGIC CHOICE; UNIT COST; VARIATION FACTOR; WALLOON REGION; WASTEWATER TREATMENT FACILITIES; WASTEWATER TREATMENT PLANTS;

COSTS; INVESTMENTS; POPULATION STATISTICS; RECLAMATION; SEWAGE; SEWAGE TREATMENT; SEWAGE TREATMENT PLANTS; WASTEWATER; WATER TREATMENT PLANTS;

WASTEWATER TREATMENT;

COST-BENEFIT ANALYSIS; DATA SET; DECISION MAKING; ENVIRONMENTAL ECONOMICS; ESTIMATION METHOD; INTEGRATED APPROACH; NUMERICAL MODEL; WASTEWATER; WATER TREATMENT;

ARTICLE; BELGIUM; COST; INVESTMENT; SEWAGE; WASTE WATER MANAGEMENT; WASTE WATER TREATMENT PLANT; CONSTRUCTION WORK AND ARCHITECTURAL PHENOMENA; ECONOMICS; METHODOLOGY; SANITATION; THEORETICAL MODEL; WATER MANAGEMENT;

BELGIUM;

BELGIUM; COSTS AND COST ANALYSIS; FACILITY DESIGN AND CONSTRUCTION; MODELS, THEORETICAL; SANITARY ENGINEERING; SEWAGE; WASTE DISPOSAL, FLUID; WATER PURIFICATION;

EID: 78049365475     PISSN: 02731223     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2166/wst.2010.322     Document Type: Article

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