Journal
ECOLOGICAL ECONOMICS
Volume 188, Issue -, Pages -Publisher
ELSEVIER
DOI: 10.1016/j.ecolecon.2021.107134
Keywords
Sanitation; Productivity; Land use change; Ecosystem services
Funding
- Coordenacao de Aperfeicoamento de Pessoal de Nivel Superior -Brasil (CAPES) [001]
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The study found that changes in water quality have significant effects on water treatment costs, with turbidity playing a key role. The results indicate that water treatment companies have incentives to improve water resource quality, which can help connect economic incentives and landscape protection.
The cost effects of water resource quality on water treatment are critical factors for firms' performance. However, few economic studies incorporate water quality parameters into cost functions. This study's main contribution was to combine data on Brazilian water treatment companies and surface water monitoring stations to produce a unique panel data set from 2003 to 2017, and then estimate the effects of water quality on water treatment costs. Based on a panel model with fixed effect approach, our findings show that disturbances on turbidity have significant effects on optimal costs. On average, one-percent increase in turbidity increases the costs in 0.1162%. Therefore, the results indicate that water treatment companies have incentives to improve water resource quality in the long run, which should be considered by regulatory agencies to connect economic incentives and landscape protection.
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