We exploit the public good attributes of Ganges water pollution cleanup and theoretically analyze an aggregate economy … pollution cleanup in these two cities ought to be provided in a centralized or in a decentralized manner. We first determine the … compute the optimal amount of water pollution cleanup in the two cities in a decentralized regime in which spending on cleanup …

This article surveys selected contributions of economics to the literature on water pollution and the regulation of … water quality. While not a comprehensive review, the article highlights water pollution issues to which economics has made … theory, empirics, or applied policy analysis. The focus is on drinking water regulation and provision; water quality …

have risen over the past 10 years. Because point sources of pollution were controlled first, agricultural nonpoint sources … protecting or improving rural water quality from agricultural sources of pollution. Two case studies show how these valuation … water pollution …

In river systems, costly upstream pollution abatement creates downstream welfare gains. Absent adequate agreement on … how to share the gains, upstream regions lack incentives to reduce pollution levels. We develop a model that makes … explicit the impact of water quality on production benefits and suggest a solution for sharing the gains of optimal pollution …