Consulta: subjectFacets:"Groundwater contamination"
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Data/hora: 10/06/2024 01:36:18

Something in the Water? Testing for Groundwater Quality Information in the Housing Market
Provedor de dados: 31
Autores: McLaughlin,   Patrick A.
I test the level of information regarding possible groundwater contamination in the residential real estate market in Washington County, Minnesota. An approximately seven square-mile trichloroethylene plume has affected hundreds of households’ water supplies since at least 1988 in the region. I find that homeowners were initially well-informed by market forces, but were later somewhat misinformed by government actions regarding the potential of water contamination from the plume. A disclosure law passed in 2003 may have added new, low-cost, and imperfect information to the market that could explain the change in informational awareness.
Tipo: Journal Article
Palavras-chave: Disclosure law; Environmental disamenity; Groundwater; Groundwater contamination; Hedonic model; Incomplete information; Water quality; Real estate; Consumer/Household Economics; Resource /Energy Economics and Policy.
Ano: 2011
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/117207

MARKET-BASED SOLUTIONS TO ENVIRONMENTAL PROBLEMS: DISCUSSION
Provedor de dados: 31
Autores: Woodward,   Richard T.
There is rapidly growing interest in the use of market-based (MB) instruments in environmental policy. The papers in this session discuss three relatively new areas for such policies: groundwater contamination, nonpoint source surface-water pollution and carbon sequestration. The papers point out the potential for MB policies in these areas, but significant challenges remain. This comment highlights challenges related to five issues: monitoring and enforcement, trading ratios, baselines, transaction costs, and risk and uncertainty. All these issues must be addressed before MB policies can take the full step from economic theory to regulatory reality.
Tipo: Journal Article
Palavras-chave: Global warming; Carbon sequestration; Groundwater contamination; Nonpoint pollution; Effluent trading; Tradable emissions permits; Environmental Economics and Policy; Q2; Q28; Q25.
Ano: 2000
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/15501

A proposed index to assess quality of waters from desalination plants
Provedor de dados: 91
Autores: Antas,Francisco P. de S.; Freitas,Jair J. R. de; Oliveira,André M. de; Dias,Nildo da S.; Lima,Alexandre de O.; Sousa Neto,Osvaldo N. de.
ABSTRACT Reverse osmosis is the technology commonly used to produce fresh water from brackish groundwater. Due to the reject brine generated in desalination plants by reverse osmosis, vulnerability assessment to define critical areas to monitor waters from desalination has been an important tool for delineating the monitoring networks required for surveillance of potential salinization sites. The objective of this study was to assess the quality of waters sampled in desalination plants by a quality index, which provides a relative assessment of water vulnerability to potential salinization. The present study proposes an index to assess the quality of waters from desalination plants initially using the chemical parameters electrical conductivity, sodium...
Tipo: Info:eu-repo/semantics/article
Palavras-chave: Soil salinization; Brackish well water; Groundwater contamination.
Ano: 2018
URL: http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S1415-43662018001000667