Toward Equitable and Sustainable Rural Water Supplies: A Contingent Valuation Study in Brazil |
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| Authors: | Briscoe, John de Castro, Paulo Furtado Griffin, Charles North, James Olsen, Orjan |
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| Affiliation: | John Briscoe is a unit chief in the Water and Sanitation Division, Infrastructure Department, the World Bank. Paulo Furtado de Castro is an economist at the Institute of Social and Economic Planning, Brasilia, Brazil. Charles Griffin is an associate professor in the Department of Economics, University of Oregon, Eugene, Oregon. James North is a graduate assistant in the Department of Economics, University of Oregon. Orjan Olsen is the research director of the Brazilian Institute of Public Opinion and Statistics (IBOPE), S!["a"]("/math/amacr.gif") o Paulo, Brazil. The IBOPE team, comprising Marcia Cavalcanti Nunes, Olival No'boa Leme, Hélio Gastaldi Filho, Fredimar Alex Vasconcelos, and Lidio Shimizu, made major contributions to the design and execution of this study. The authors have benefited from numerous discussions with colleagues including Wilton Bussab, Emilio Rodriguez, V. Kerry Smith, and Dale Whittington. Financial support was provided by the United Nations Development Programme, the Swiss Development Corporation, the Norwegian Agency for International Development, the World Bank, and the government of Brazil. |
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| Abstract: | Because many rural people are poor, it is usually assumed thatrural water supplies must be financed by government agencies.It is now widely recognized, however, that many rural peoplecan and will pay for improved water supplies, and that sustainingand extending services depends on mobilizing this willingnessto pay. This article describes a study of willingness to payfor water in Brazil. The study shows that surveys of actualand hypothetical water-use practices can provide policy-relevantinformation on willingness to pay, which is shown to vary accordingto household socioeconomic characteristics and the characteristicsof the existing and new supplies of water. In rural Brazil,tariffs for yard taps can be increased substantially beforesignificant numbers of households would choose not to connectto an improved system, whereas provision of free water at publictaps can protect the poor without jeopardizing the financialviability of the scheme. |
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