Where the Water is Free but the Buckets are Empty: Demand Analysis of Drinking Water in Rural India

Anand Asthana

Open Economies Review, 1997, vol. 8, issue 2, 137-149

Abstract: This paper examines how a policy of providing free domestic water can be unsustainable. Using a conditional logit model, this research looks at the demand side and identifies the determinants of choice. Under assumptions normally associated with developing societies, the model shows that the people's perception of benefits of safe water is significant, household variables like female literacy are important variables determining the choice of safe water and the capability to pay and willingness to pay already exists. The governments in poor countries need to have a fresh look at their policy relating to rural water supply. Copyright Kluwer Academic Publishers 1997

Keywords: demand analysis; water supply; developing countries (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 1997
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