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Nitrate pollution of groundwater long exceeding trigger value : fertilization practices require more transparency and oversight
Sundermann, Greta; Wägner, Nicole; Cullmann, Astrid; … - In: DIW weekly report : economy, politics, science : a … 10 (2020) 8/9, pp. 61-72
-fifth of the groundwater sampling sites in Germany. Apart from impairing the ecosystem by, for example, causing eutrophication … the fertilizer ordinance in 2017, it remains insufficient to effectively combat nitrate pollution of groundwater. As a …
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Factors Influencing Participation Intention for Improving River Water Quality : An Empirical Evidence from Dhaka, Bangladesh
Islam, Md Ariful - 2020
The improvement of river water quality has been recognized as a means of achieving successful river restoration that shows improved morphological, biota and ecological conditions. A better understanding of the factors that influence public participation in improving water quality can contribute...
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Assessing the value of surface water and groundwater quality improvements when time lags and outcome uncertainty exist : results from a choice experiment survey across four differe...
Larsen, Tobias Holmsgaard; Lundhede, Thomas Hedemark; … - 2020
) for improvements in surface water quality as well as groundwater quality. A particular novel focus is on estimating the … average have quite high WTP for improvements in water quality, both in relation to surface water and groundwater. In addition …
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Socio-economic Risks of Groundwater Vulnerability, Contamination & Earthquakes : Revisiting The Izmit (1999) and Kahramanmaras (2023) Earthquakes in Turkiye
Bayraktar, Dr. Murat - 2023
Human activity is almost invariably the cause of groundwater contamination. Groundwater is particularly at risk in … purposeful or unintentional release of chemicals or wastes into the environment has the possibility of polluting groundwater …. Cleaning up after groundwater contamination is challenging and expensive.The Kahramanmaras region has suffered an unimaginable …
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Shale Gas Development and the Costs of Groundwater Contamination Risk
Muehlenbachs, Lucija - 2013
identify the capitalization of groundwater contamination risk in property values, differentiating it from other externalities …. However, groundwater contamination concerns fully offset those gains by reducing property values up to 26 percent …
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Pesticide Use and Health Outcomes : Evidence from Agricultural Water Pollution in China
Lai, Wangyang - 2016
By linking provincial pesticide usage reports from several Chinese statistical yearbooks (1998-2011) with the Chinese … between people who drink surface water and ground water in regions with different intensities of rice pesticide use before and …% increase in rice pesticide use unfavorably alters a key medical disability index (Activities of Daily Living or ADL) by 1% for …
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Electoral incentives and firm behavior : evidence from U.S. power plant pollution abatement
Doyle, Matthew; Di Maria, Corrado; Lange, Ian; … - 2016
Researchers have utilized the fact that many states have term limits (as opposed to being eligible for re-election) for governors to determine how changes in electoral incentives alter state regulatory agency behavior. This paper asks whether these impacts spill over into private sector...
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Something in the pipe : Flint water crisis and health at birth
Wang, Rui; Chen, Xi; Li, Xun - 2019
Flint changed its public water source in 2014, causing severe water contamination. We estimate the effect of in utero exposure to polluted water on health at birth using the recent Flint water crisis as a natural experiment. Matching vital statistics birth records with various sources of data,...
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Improving drinking water quality in South Korea : a choice experiment
Gschwandtner, Adelina; Jang, Cheul; McManus, Richard - 2017
Increased pollution leads to a constant decrease of drinking water quality worldwide. Due to safety concerns, unpleasant taste and odour only about 3% of the population in South Korea is drinking untreated tap water. The present study uses choice experiments and cost-benefit analysis to...
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Centralized versus decentralized cleanup of river water pollution : an application to the Ganges
Batabyal, Amitrajeet A.; Beladi, Hamid - In: Games 14 (2023) 5, pp. 1-12
We exploit the public good attributes of Ganges water pollution cleanup and theoretically analyze an aggregate economy of two cities-Kanpur and Varanasi-through which the Ganges flows. Our specific objective is to study whether water pollution cleanup in these two cities ought to be provided in...
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