Author : Ramesh Vaidya
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 70 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (121 download)
Book Synopsis Scale Economies in Rural Water Supply Systems and Water Quality Standards of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency by : Ramesh Vaidya
Download or read book Scale Economies in Rural Water Supply Systems and Water Quality Standards of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency written by Ramesh Vaidya and published by . This book was released on 1982 with total page 70 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Extract: The general purpose of this study was to explore ways of improving the quality of rural water without adding to its cost. In specific the study examined a number of rural community systems in operation to discover (1) whether the average cost of producing water tended to be less for large systems, (2) whether such scale effects were large enough to mitigate the scale diseconomies likely to occur because of decreasing customer density as service areas expand, and (3) whether sufficient margin will remain for improving the quality of the water produced without escalating the cost.