Valuing water quality improvements

✍ Scribed by Ramchandani, Richard

• Publisher: John Wiley and Sons
• Year: 2007
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 355 KB
• Volume: 2
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0961-0405
• DOI: 10.1002/eet.3320020210

✦ Synopsis

values of water quality improvements. In particular, this paper attempts to show how specific river uses can be valued for local water quality improvements.

The ability to obtain monetary values for water quality improvements plays a crucial role in justif"ng expenditure on water

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pollution control projects. ~c h a r d the achievement of local Water

The UK National Rivers Authority (NRA) has identified several 'uses' of surface waters as given in Table 1 above.

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In order to protect the different uses environmental quality standards are set. For some of the uses, salmonid fisheries (waters which can support salmon and rainbow trout) and cypanid fisheries (watels which can support all other appropriate fish life), and abstraction to potable supply for