Downstream Impacts of Water Pollution in the Upper Citarum River, West Java, Indonesia : Economic Assessment of Interventions to Improve Water Quality
The Economics of Sanitation Initiative (ESI) of the World Bank's Water and Sanitation Program (WSP) commenced in East Asia and the Pacific region in 2006 to generate and disseminate economic evidence on sanitation. A phase one study in five co...
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| Format: | Working Paper |
| Language: | English en_US |
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Asian Development Bank, Manila and World Bank, Washington, DC
2014
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| Online Access: | http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/2013/10/19123221/downstream-impacts-water-pollution-upper-citarum-river-west-java-indonesia-economic-assessment-interventions-improve-water-quality http://hdl.handle.net/10986/17750 |
| Summary: | The Economics of Sanitation Initiative
(ESI) of the World Bank's Water and Sanitation Program
(WSP) commenced in East Asia and the Pacific region in 2006
to generate and disseminate economic evidence on sanitation.
A phase one study in five countries of the region, including
Indonesia, assessed the economic costs of inadequate
sanitation to raise the profile of sanitation nationally. A
phase two study compared the costs with the benefits of a
range of sanitation intervention options in five physical
locations in Indonesia, to assist decision makers in their
choice of sanitation technology and delivery method. Since
the demonstrated successes of ESI in the East Asia and
Pacific region, ESI has become a global flagship program of
WSP. However, some economic benefits have not been fully
evaluated in monetary terms because of methodological
difficulties in valuing nonmarket impacts, the paucity of
underlying data sets, and the difficulties inherent in
attributing observed impacts to poor sanitation. Among these
hard-to-measure benefits are the impacts of poor sanitation
on water resources. Hence, the purpose of this study was to
develop and pilot test a specific methodology for valuing a
wider range of impacts related to water resource pollution
in Indonesia. |
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