Household’s Willingness to Pay for Safe Drinking Water: A Case Study of Abbottabad District

Haq, Mirajul; Mustafa, Usman; Ahmad, Iftikhar

doi:10.30541/v46i4iipp.1137-1153

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“…Many existing studies analyze household choice of drinking water source through an averting (or defensive) expenditures and willingness to pay framework. Utilizing households' stated preferences for various drinking water alternatives, these microeconomic approaches attempt to quantify household demand for clean water and thereby evaluate the value of improvements in water quality (Akter, 2008;Dupont & Jahan, 2012;Haq et al, 2007;Jordan & Elnagheeb, 1993;Katuwal & Bohara, 2011;Larson & Gnedenko, 1999;McConnell & Rosado, 2000;Nauges & Van Den Berg, 2009;Pattanayak et al, 2005;Rodríguez-Tapia et al, 2017;Vasquez et al, 2009). Due to the reliance on in-depth survey assessments of household revealed preferences, these studies are necessarily small-scale, analyzing the choices of a few hundred households or less.…”

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U.S. Households' Perception of Drinking Water as Unsafe and its Consequences: Examining Alternative Choices to the Tap

Javidi

Pierce

2018

Water Resources Research

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Using 2015 American Housing Survey data, this study generates the first national estimates of the use of drinking water alternatives among households who perceive their tap water to be unsafe. Multivariate regression models examine factors influencing both perception of tap water and the choice of tap alternatives. We find that minority households more commonly perceive their tap water to be unsafe and choose bottled water when they perceive the tap as unsafe. While perception of unsafe tap water is most prevalent among Hispanic households, among the population perceiving their tap to be unsafe, Black households more commonly buy bottled water. We estimate the minimum annual expenditure by all U.S. households who perceive the tap as unsafe and buy bottled water to meet necessary consumption standards at $5.65 billion annually. Novel secondary treatment interventions and education campaigns are needed to address the perception of tap water as unsafe and consequent alternative source reliance, while additional research is needed to document the active trade‐offs households make to manage their water sources, and to better understand determinants of the perception of tap water as unsafe within minority groups.

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U.S. Households' Perception of Drinking Water as Unsafe and its Consequences: Examining Alternative Choices to the Tap

Javidi

Pierce

2018

Water Resources Research

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“…Based on a household survey conducted in Abbottabad (Pakistan), Haq et al (2007) found that there are statistically significant effects of education on the water purification behaviour of the households. They also found that, higher income quartile is highly significant in all coping strategies.…”

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Household Choice of Purifying Drinking Water in Cameroon

Totouom

Sikod

Abba³

2012

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This study contributes to the still short literature on demand for drinking water quality in Africa by modeling Cameroonian households' choice of purifying drinking water. Specifically, the study seeks to: analyze households' access to water and various measures undertaken to improve water quality; identify the factors driving households' decision to purify drinking water. Our analysis uses data from the second Multiple Indicators Cluster Survey carried out in 2006 by the National Institute of Statistics. In order to control for possible simultaneity of the choice of drinking water source and the decision to purify water or not before drinking it, a bivariate probit model is used for discrete analysis. Most previous studies have neglected to consider this issue in their analysis. Our findings suggest that households' educational level has a positive and statistically significant impact on households' decision to purify water before drinking it. Results also reveal that wealth quintile, health status and number of children less than five years strongly affect households' decision. In particular, the magnitude of the wealth quintile impact on households' decision is larger than those of the other variables. Implications for drinking water policies are discussed.

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“…Many such studies are, however, undertaken for policy purposes and are not published in academic journals. The published studies of WTP for improved water services in South Asia include Altaf, Jamal, and Whittington (1992), Haq, Usman, and Ahmad (2007), Akter (2008) and Akram and Olmstead (2011) for Pakistan, Islam, Kitawaki, and Rahman (1994), Chowdhury (1999), Ahmad, Goldar, Jakariya, and Misra (2002) for Bangladesh, Venkatachalam (2006) and Guha (2007) for India, Whittington, Pattanaak, Yan, and Kumar (2002) for Nepal, and Gunatilake, Yang, Pattanayak, & van den Berg, (2006) for Sri Lanka. Amongst the other CV studies in Asia, Calderon et.al (2006) assesses the WTP for improved watershed management in relation to water supply quality improvement in Manila, Wang, Xie and Li (2010) assesses WTP for water supply service in Chongqing, China and Lee, Yoo, and Kim (2013) estimate the WTP for water supply service in Korea.…”

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Willingness to Pay and Inclusive Tariff Designs for Improved Water Supply Services in Urban Bangladesh

Gunatilake¹,

Tachiri²

2014

JSD

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The study investigates willingness to pay for improved water supply services in urban Bangladesh, using a contingent valuation survey of 3000 households in Khulna city. Since the large connection cost is regarded as one of the major obstacles to expand the piped network among the poor, the study explicitly incorporates the connection cost in addition to monthly charge. The construct validity tests show that the respondents have understood the elicitation questions and answered truthfully. Policy simulations show that poor households are less likely to be connected under fixed charge tariff, and introduction of volumetric tariff will increase the acceptance of the improved water service by poor households. Increasing block tariff shows the highest uptake rate of the improved service by the poor. The large connection cost is found to be a critical bottleneck to expanding the coverage for the poor. Easy payments systems for connection charge such as installment payments, or including the connection costs under the capital investment of the project, will significantly improve the inclusion of the poor in the proposed water supply scheme.

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Household’s Willingness to Pay for Safe Drinking Water: A Case Study of Abbottabad District

Abstract: Safe drinking water is the basic need of each human being. In the past 100 years the world population tripled, but water use for human purposes multiplied sixfold [Frank, et al. (2000)].

Cited by 48 publications

References 13 publications

U.S. Households' Perception of Drinking Water as Unsafe and its Consequences: Examining Alternative Choices to the Tap

U.S. Households' Perception of Drinking Water as Unsafe and its Consequences: Examining Alternative Choices to the Tap

Household Choice of Purifying Drinking Water in Cameroon

Willingness to Pay and Inclusive Tariff Designs for Improved Water Supply Services in Urban Bangladesh

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