Health and water quality benefits of alternative sewerage systems in Metro Manila, Philippines

• Main Author: Palanca-Tan, Rosalina
• Format: text
• Published: Archīum Ateneo 2017
• Subjects: choice modelling; combined drainage–sewerage; domestic wastewater; individual household sewer connection; marginal willingness to pay; Metro Manila; waterborne diseases; water pollution; Behavioral Economics; Economics
• Online Access: https://archium.ateneo.edu/economics-faculty-pubs/28; https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/0956247817718402
• Institution: Ateneo De Manila University

This paper presents results of a household survey on the current sanitation and sewerage conditions in Metro Manila. The survey included a choice, measured in terms of the marginal willingness to pay (MWTP), between two alternative domestic wastewater treatment systems: 1) a sewerage system connecti...