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http://dx.doi.org/10.3741/JKWRA.2006.39.7.563

Consumer’s Willingness To Pay for Residential Water and It’s Policy Implication  

Park Doo-Ho (Korea Institute of Water & Environment)
Park Yoon-Shin (Korea Institute of Water & Environment)
Lee Gwang-Man (Korea Institute of Water & Environment)
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Journal of Korea Water Resources Association / v.39, no.7, 2006 , pp. 563-574 More about this Journal
Abstract
Economic theory tell us, consumers always make a choice to maximize their utility. In the market system, consumers' choices are revealed and policy maker taking into account the aggregated consumers choice such as price, supply and demand. However, water resources as a public goods, therefore typically there is no market and does no aggregated information for residential water use. This study explore the consumers' willingness to pay for higher quality for residential water. Over 1,000 households responded for this survey and willingness to pay has been estimated. Furthermore, consumers' behaviors of residential water are examined. Consumers are willing to reduce the amount of water use with more than 50% of increasing water price, but stay almost constant with less than 25% of increasing which mean that current price level is not high enough to derive water saving. If consumers can have better quality of water, they willing to pay additional 16%, $153\;won/m^3/month$, more than their current price. Based on the derived information, we suggested policy direction for residential water policy.
Keywords
Residential Water; Water Quality; Demand of Water; Willingness to Pay; Value of Residential Water;
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