Journal
WATER SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY
Volume 52, Issue 9, Pages 153-162Publisher
I W A PUBLISHING
DOI: 10.2166/wst.2005.0308
Keywords
diffuse pollution; Europe; groundwater; nitrate; pesticides; pollution cost; scenario; Water Framework Directive
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This paper presents an assessment of the costs of diffuse groundwater pollution by nitrates and pesticides for the industrial and the drinking water sectors in the Upper Rhine valley, France. Pollution costs which occurred between 1988 and 2002 are described and assessed using the avoidance cost method. Geo-statistical methods (kriging) are then used to construct three scenarios of nitrate concentration evolution. The economic consequences of each scenario are then assessed. The estimates obtained are compared with the results of a contingent valuation study carried out in the same study area ten years earlier.
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