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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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Ground Water Pollution and Emerging Environmental Challenges of Industrial Effluent Irrigation : A Case Study of Mettupalayam Taluk, Tamilnadu
Mukherjee, Sacchidananda; Nelliyat, Prakash - East Asian Bureau of Economic Research (EABER) - 2006
Industrial disposal of effluents on land and subsequent pollution of groundwater and soil of surrounding farmlands is a … effluents on land, which has limited capacity to assimilate the pollution load, has led to groundwater pollution. Ground water … groundwater fo irrigation has resulted in increased salt conent of soils. In some locations drinking water wells (deep bore wells …
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Unintended Consequences of Indian Groundwater Preservation Law on Crop Residue Burning
Agarwala, Meghna; Bhattacharjee, Shampa; Dasgupta, Aparajita - 2022
This paper examines the unintended consequences of a policy aimed at improving the groundwater level on crop residue … paddy before mid-June to preserve groundwater. Theoretically, this leaves a short window of time for clearing the field …
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The Missing Benefits of Clean Water and the Role of Mismeasured Pollution
Keiser, David - 2018
Although the U.S. spends billions of dollars a year controlling water pollution, there is little empirical evidence of comparable benefits. This study argues that measurement error in pollution data causes benefits to be underestimated. Using upstream concentrations as instrumental variables for...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012915835
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Cost-effectiveness analysis in reducing nutrient loading in Baltic and Black Seas: A review
Halkos, George - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2013
Eutrophication represents a global environmental pressure that necessitates international co-operation and the diffusion of information to avoid information asymmetries, the construction of an appropriate legislative framework, the development of monitoring technologies and scientific research...
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Is there any relationship between Environmental Quality Index, Human Development Index and Economic Growth? Evidences from Indian States
Mukherjee, Sacchidananda; Chakraborty, Debashis - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2009
Economic growth does not necessarily ensure environmental sustainability for a country. The relationship between the two is far more complicated for developing countries like India, given the dependence of a large section of the population on natural resources. Under this backdrop, the current...
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Impact of different irrigation systems on water quality in peri-urban areas of Gujarat, India
Vangani, Ruchi; Saxena, Deepak; Gerber, Nikolaus; … - 2016
The ever-growing population of India, along with the increasing competition for water for productive uses in different sectors - especially irrigated agriculture and related local water systems and drainage - poses a challenge in an effort to improve water quality and sanitation. In rural and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011588706
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The impacts of household water quality testing and information on safe water behaviors: Evidence from a randomized experiment in Ghana
Okyere, Charles Yaw; Pangaribowo, Evita Hanie; Asante, … - 2017
Households in developing countries face an enormous set of health risks from using contaminated water sources. In 2014, a group of 512 households relying on unimproved water, sanitation and hygiene practices in the Greater Accra region of Ghana were randomly selected to participate in the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011869287
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Impact of different irrigation systems on water quality in peri-urban areas of Gujarat, India
Vangani, Ruchi; Saxena, Deepak; Gerber, Nikolaus; … - 2016
The ever-growing population of India, along with the increasing competition for water for productive uses in different sectors - especially irrigated agriculture and related local water systems and drainage - poses a challenge in an effort to improve water quality and sanitation. In rural and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011521116
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The impacts of household water quality testing and information on safe water behaviors : evidence from a randomized experiment in Ghana
Okyere, Charles Yaw; Pangaribowo, Evita Hanie; Asante, … - 2017
Households in developing countries face an enormous set of health risks from using contaminated water sources. In 2014, a group of 512 households relying on unimproved water, sanitation and hygiene practices in the Greater Accra region of Ghana were randomly selected to participate in the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011636237