Abstract
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.
| Original language | English (US) |
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| Pages (from-to) | 947-956 |
| Number of pages | 10 |
| Journal | Journal of the American Water Resources Association |
| Volume | 43 |
| Issue number | 4 |
| DOIs | |
| State | Published - Aug 2007 |
Keywords
- Contingent valuation
- Drinking water
- Irrigation
- Restoration
- Water quality economics
- Watershed management
ASJC Scopus subject areas
- Ecology
- Water Science and Technology
- Earth-Surface Processes