Stated preference values for water quality ratings based on the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency National Water … rivers in the region for which water quality is rated Good. Valuations are skewed, with the mean value more than double the … median. Sources of heterogeneity in benefit values include differences in responses to average water quality information and …

This work aims at analysing the value of recreational water uses for the Idro Lake (Lombardy, Northern Italy), which …

imposing restrictive parametric specifications, which are rarely supported by economic theory. The smoothing parameters, which …

We design a survey to provide quantitative evidence about household demand for qualitative aspects of tap water supply …. We focus on two characteristics that are of importance for households: water hardness and aesthetic quality in terms of … characteristics of tap water quality, and administration targets a representative sample of the population in England and Wales. For …

extended its reach from waterways to wildlife, water rights, groundwater, beaches, funding decisions affecting natural …

Cost-benefit analyses are commonly applied to assess the net welfare effects of policies to improve surface water … improvements on water quality there will typically be considerable time lags, and in many cases there is a risk that the measures …. Our analysis indicates that reaching the EU Water Framework Directive target for our case study will lead to large and …