Analysis of Drinking Water treatment costs – with an Application to Groundwater Purification Valuation

Result code in IS VaVaI

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Alternative codes found

RIV/62156489:43110/22:43922355

Result on the web

<a href="https://oneecosystem.pensoft.net/articles.php?id=82125&journal_name=oneecosystem" target="_blank" >https://oneecosystem.pensoft.net/articles.php?id=82125&journal_name=oneecosystem</a>

DOI - Digital Object Identifier

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/oneeco.7.e82125J" target="_blank" >10.3897/oneeco.7.e82125J</a>

Result language

angličtina

Original language name

Analysis of Drinking Water treatment costs – with an Application to Groundwater Purification Valuation

Original language description

Understanding the factors affecting drinking water production costs is crucial for choosing a cost-effective solution for public drinking water supply systems. An important determinant of water treatment costs is the purification of raw water. Despite water purification being a well-acknowledged ecosystem service, its monetary value has not been assessed much yet. We present the first study analysing the determinants of drinking water production costs and valuating groundwater purification in the Czech Republic. We tested the impact of the type of raw water, the amount of drinking water produced, electric power consumption and treatment technologies and chemicals. The results suggested that drinking water production from groundwater was cheaper than from surface water. Even though drinking water production from groundwater was cheaper than from surface water, the application of some technologies, for example, chlorine or manganese removal, increased the production cost. Hence groundwater production costs can exceed surface water production costs. The outcome of the regression was applied for the valuation of groundwater purification. The valuation was further used for the development of monetary drinking water accounts within the System of Environmental- Economic Accounting – Ecosystem Accounting.

Czech name

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Czech description

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Type

J_SC - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the SCOPUS database

CEP classification

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OECD FORD branch

50202 - Applied Economics, Econometrics

Project

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Continuities

I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace

Publication year

2022

Confidentiality

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Name of the periodical

One Ecosystem

ISSN

2367-8194

e-ISSN

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Volume of the periodical

7

Issue of the periodical within the volume

NOV

Country of publishing house

BG - BULGARIA

Number of pages

14

Pages from-to

e82125

UT code for WoS article

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EID of the result in the Scopus database

2-s2.0-85147988657