Brief description of a study on willingness to pay for arsenic-free, safe drinking water in rural Bangladesh which investigated the factors that influence demand for arsenic-free, safe drinking water and examined preferences regarding household/community-
| Title | Willingness to pay for arsenic-free, safe drinking water in rural Bangladesh : methodology and results |
| Publication Type | Miscellaneous |
| Year of Publication | 2002 |
| Authors | Ahmad, JK, Goldar, BN, Jakariya, M, Misra, S |
| Secondary Title | Field note / WSP |
| Pagination | 16 p. : 2 fig., photogr., 4 tab. |
| Date Published | 2002-12-01 |
| Publisher | Water and Sanitation Program - South Asia |
| Place Published | New Delhi, India |
| Keywords | arsenic, bangladesh, consumer demand, field studies, methodology, piped distribution, rural areas, sdiasi, sdiman, uebw, water quality, willingness to pay |
| Abstract | Brief description of a study on willingness to pay for arsenic-free, safe drinking water in rural Bangladesh which investigated the factors that influence demand for arsenic-free, safe drinking water and examined preferences regarding household/community-based arsenic mitigation technologies. The focus of this report is on the design, particularly the methodology used for estimating willingness to pay (WTP).The estimates of WTP obtained are presented. Some key results of the field survey, together with the main findings and policy recommendations, have been published in a separate note entitled, `Fighting arsenic, listening to rural communities : findings from a study on willingness to pay for arsenic-free, safe drinking water in rural Bangladesh. |
| Notes | 12 ref. |
| Custom 1 | 822, 264.0, 241.3 |
