Water's role in manufacturing technologies has received limited attention in econometric studies of natural resource use. A KLEM model of technology is extended to include three facets of water use: intake, recirculation and discharge,

In this ppaer we provide econometric estimates for the water-related technology of the Canadian Food and Beverage processing industry as a hole, as well as for each of the following sub-sector : food, beverage, meat, fruit, dairy, and a residual category called other.

The debate over the efficacy of the dichotomous choice contingent valuation methodology for eliciting the public's values for environmental improvements is on-going. An important issue is the effect of the question sequence. This paper uses a double bounded dichotomous choice suvey instrument to...

There is a growing effort to view water resource allocation from a perspective which incorporates consumers' preferences along with the supply constraints into management plans. This paper examines the structure of water users' preferences, the structure of the cost of supply and the appropriate...