Estimating Willingness to Pay for Water: A Contingent Valuation Study on Meki Town
| dc.contributor.advisor | Bedri, Abdulhamid (Dr) | |
| dc.contributor.author | Aberra, Fisseha | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2021-07-28T06:29:29Z | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2023-11-04T10:30:32Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2021-07-28T06:29:29Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2023-11-04T10:30:32Z | |
| dc.date.issued | 1997-06 | |
| dc.description.abstract | In this paper, the methed of comingent valuation (CV) is employed to assess consumers Willingness to pay for an improved water supply service provided through aprivate Connection, The facus group for study are 264 households who randomly selected From the small Ethiopian town of Meki. Though 95.5 percent of the sample use a predominantly piped water source.s4 percent of them consider the existing source to be instatisfactory. Hence an improved system which also Charges higher tarff rate than existing one was welcomed by many of the sample.In fact,a Tariff rate of 10 cents per insrra, in spite of being almost double the current average price, Was found affordable to 89 percent of the sample. It was also observed that willingness-to-pay bid responses are past random members but Sensible expressions of consumersnces which in fact are partly explained by economic Variables such as incame and the time cost of fetching water alternative sources. | en_US |
| dc.identifier.uri | http://etd.aau.edu.et/handle/123456789/27403 | |
| dc.language.iso | en | en_US |
| dc.publisher | A.A.U | en_US |
| dc.subject | Water | en_US |
| dc.subject | Valuation | en_US |
| dc.title | Estimating Willingness to Pay for Water: A Contingent Valuation Study on Meki Town | en_US |
| dc.type | Thesis | en_US |