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Stakeholder Willingness to Pay for Watershed Restoration in Rural Bolivia 1
Author(s) -
Shultz Steven,
Soliz Bruno
Publication year - 2007
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.1752-1688.2007.00076.x
Subject(s) - willingness to pay , watershed , hectare , irrigation , stakeholder , agricultural economics , population , watershed management , water resource management , geography , socioeconomics , business , environmental science , agriculture , economics , environmental health , ecology , management , archaeology , medicine , machine learning , computer science , microeconomics , biology
Two CVM surveys were administered to 211 urban households and 188 rural farmer‐irrigators in the Comarapa watershed in Bolivia, South America, to estimate stakeholder willingness to pay (WTP) for a proposed upper watershed restoration program. Mean monthly household WTP to improve drinking water was $1.95 (65% of current charges), while mean annual WTP among farmer‐irrigators to improve irrigation water was $17 per hectare (34% of current costs). Aggregated to the entire population of households and farmer‐irrigators total WTP is $77,400 per year, which is 77% of the minimum cost to implement a watershed restoration program.