| 来源类型 | Working Paper |
| 规范类型 | 报告 |
| DOI | 10.3386/w26077 |
| 来源ID | Working Paper 26077 |
| US Water Pollution Regulation over the Last Half Century: Burning Waters to Crystal Springs? | |
| David A. Keiser; Joseph S. Shapiro | |
| 发表日期 | 2019-07-22 |
| 出版年 | 2019 |
| 语种 | 英语 |
| 摘要 | In the half century since the founding of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, public and private U.S. sources have spent nearly $5 trillion ($2017) to provide clean rivers, lakes, and drinking water, or annual spending of 0.8 percent of U.S. GDP in most years. Yet over half of rivers and substantial shares of drinking water systems violate standards, and polls for decades have listed water pollution as Americans’ number one environmental concern. We assess the history, effectiveness, and efficiency of the Clean Water Act and Safe Drinking Water Act, and obtain four main conclusions. First, water pollution has fallen since these laws, in part due to their interventions. Second, investments made under these laws could be more cost-effective. Third, most recent studies estimate benefits of cleaning up pollution in rivers and lakes which are less than their costs, though these studies may under-count several potentially important types of benefits. Analysis finds more positive net benefits of drinking water quality investments. Fourth, economic research and teaching on water pollution is relatively uncommon, as measured by samples of publications, conference presentations, and textbooks. |
| 主题 | Public Economics ; Taxation ; Other ; Law and Economics ; Environmental and Resource Economics ; Environment |
| URL | https://www.nber.org/papers/w26077 |
| 来源智库 | National Bureau of Economic Research (United States) |
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| 资源类型 | 智库出版物 |
| 条目标识符 | http://119.78.100.153/handle/2XGU8XDN/583751 |
| 推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714 | David A. Keiser,Joseph S. Shapiro. US Water Pollution Regulation over the Last Half Century: Burning Waters to Crystal Springs?. 2019. |
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| w26077.pdf（380KB） | 智库出版物 | 限制开放 | CC BY-NC-SA | 浏览 | ||
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