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Application of User Charges to Water Quality Management
Author(s) -
Upton Charles
Publication year - 1971
Publication title -
water resources research
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.863
H-Index - 217
eISSN - 1944-7973
pISSN - 0043-1397
DOI - 10.1029/wr007i002p00264
Subject(s) - miami , water quality , pollutant , quality (philosophy) , environmental science , water resource management , environmental economics , computer science , structural basin , economics , geology , ecology , biology , paleontology , philosophy , chemistry , organic chemistry , epistemology , soil science
The problems of user charges as a device for regulating the discharge of pollutants are considered for the Miami (Ohio) river basin. Cost functions for treatment processes are estimated for this basin. The analysis indicates that if taxes are levied to achieve the minimum cost of meeting a water quality standard, the receipts would pay about 85% of the cost of centralized treatment. However, user charges levied to pay for centralized treatment would erase this deficit at an additional total cost of only about 1%.