Organisationsformen und Umweltabgaben im kommunalen Gewaesserschutz

Fritz Rahmeyer ()
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Fritz Rahmeyer: University of Augsburg, Department of Economics

No 212, Discussion Paper Series from Universitaet Augsburg, Institute for Economics

Abstract: The municipal protection of inshore waters is part of the water supply industry. Both water supply service and waste water disposal is in succession brought force by a network ofseparate fresh water and waste water pipes, besides on a local scale. Environmental policy instruments of waters protection is the con-struction of sewage plants according to state-of the-art technology and financial incentives to save water consumption and the quantity of waste water, also to avoid the emission of harmful substances by the way of amunicipal waste water charge that includes a water pollution charge. Both the more than proportional increase of the municipal waste water charge and the high prospective demand for investment into sewage works has brought about the search for new organizational forms and different methods concerning water supply and waste water disposal. Above all the participation of private enterprises and the local and supralocal cooperation between municipalities are discussed both directed at cutting costs. Water pollution charges as implemented in Germany intend to support the enforcement of the relevant environmentallaw and to charge the residual water pollution but not to obtain public receipts. It is debatable whether the inclusion of the social costs of water pollution - if known at all by the environmental authority - into the municipal waste water charge is allowed. A further proposal for an intended reform of the waste water charge is to consider the factual instead of the presumed amount of pollutants as the basis of valuation.

Keywords: Public waste water treatment; laws pertaining to water supply and waste water treatment; water pollution charge; national environmental federalism (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: K32 L95 L98 Q28 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2001-10
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