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Developing Joint Water Projects
Author(s) -
Hardten Ronald D.
Publication year - 1984
Publication title -
journal ‐ american water works association
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.466
H-Index - 74
eISSN - 1551-8833
pISSN - 0003-150X
DOI - 10.1002/j.1551-8833.1984.tb05313.x
Subject(s) - joint (building) , business , scale (ratio) , service (business) , population , distribution (mathematics) , economies of scale , water supply , environmental planning , natural resource economics , geography , economics , environmental science , civil engineering , engineering , marketing , environmental engineering , cartography , environmental health , medicine , mathematical analysis , mathematics
Water purveyors that serve large cities in the United States are often faced with providing service to rapidly growing areas outside the city limits. In many cases, joint development of water supplies, treatment facilities, and distribution systems allows all the agencies to take advantage of the financing capacity of the larger entity, provides economy‐of‐scale, and avoids some of the deleterious effects of population shifts from central cities to outlying areas.