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    Inspections and emissions in India : puzzling survey evidence on industrial water pollution

    Policy Research Working Papers, World Bank, 1997
    In a sample of industrial plants in India, direct community pressure on plants does not appear to play a major role in reducing emissions. Nor do formal inspections, possibly because of the low probability of enforcement and the low penalties for noncompliance.
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    Do Cross-Subsidies Help the Poor to Benefit from Water and Wastewater Services?: Lessons from Guayaquil, Ecuador

    UNDP - World Bank Water and Sanitation Program, 1999
    Tariff policy in many countries is often driven by the understandable desire to assure that the poor have access to reliable water and sewerage services which leads, in turn to a system of cross-subsidies. The water utility charges low income groups and residences at below-average rates, but charges industrial and commercial users at above average rates to make up the difference.
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    Water Insecurity and the Poor: Issues and Research Needs

    Zentrum für Entwicklungsforschung, Bonn, 1998
    The problems of water insecurity can be grouped under three main headings: availability, access and usage. In the framework of a multidisciplinary approach to the analysis of water problems, the paper elaborates on these three elements, defining sectoral and cross-sectoral knowledge gaps. The paper concludes with a research agenda in support of improved policy design and action. [author]
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    Water quality improvements: a contingent valuation study of the Chao Phraya river

    IDRC Economy and Environment Program for Southeast Asia, 2000
    To assess how much the cleanliness of the Chao Phraya river is worth to the residents of Bangkok, this study estimates the willingness of Bangkok residents to pay for improved water quality by conducting a contingent valuation survey suggests economic instruments to encourage this willingness to pay, such as user fees, property taxes, and other measures.

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