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CLEAN WATER ACT REAUTHORIZATION: HOW FAR HAVE WE COME? 1
Author(s) -
Freeman A. Myrick.
Publication year - 1994
Publication title -
jawra journal of the american water resources association
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.957
H-Index - 105
eISSN - 1752-1688
pISSN - 1093-474X
DOI - 10.1111/j.1752-1688.1994.tb03328.x
Subject(s) - clean water act , water quality , cost–benefit analysis , recreation , environmental planning , environmental science , business , pollution , united states regulation of point source water pollution , water pollution , natural resource economics , environmental economics , clean water , environmental resource management , economics , nonpoint source pollution , engineering , political science , waste management , law , ecology , environmental chemistry , chemistry , biology
This paper first presents a brief review of an earlier effort to estimate the benefits associated with achieving the Clean Water Act objectives. It then discusses what would be involved in doing a retrospective benefit‐cost analysis of the Clean Water Act and some information on changes in several measures of water quality over the past 20 years. The paper concludes with a summary of a recent effort to estimate the realized benefits associated with the Clean Water Act and some implications for policy. (KEY TERMS: benefits; benefit‐cost analysis; costs; recreation; water pollution; water quality.)