Cost and Efficacy of Water Disinfection Practices: Evidence from Canada
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.15353/rea.v4i2.1384Abstract
This study investigates the cost and efficacy of water disinfection practices using data from Canadian Municipal Water and Wastewater Survey. Since only a small number of municipalities use UV or ozone, this study investigates whether the dominant use of chlorine-based disinfectants is due to their efficacy in preventing microbiological problems or because UV or ozone imposes an unacceptably high financial burden on municipalities. The results suggest that the use of UV or ozone can lead to a lower likelihood of having microbiological problems and that the dominant use of chlorine-based disinfection cannot be based on cost comparisons alone.
Downloads
Published
Issue
Section
License
The Review of Economic Analysis is committed to the open exchange of ideas and information.
Unlike traditional print journals which require the author to relinquish copyright to the publisher, The Review of Economic Analysis requires that authors release their work under Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial license. This license allows anyone to copy, distribute and transmit the work provided the use is non-commercial and appropriate attribution is given.
A 'human-readable' summary of the licence is here and the full legal text is here.