The Impact of Tap Connection on Water Use : The Case of Household Water Consumption in Dakar, Senegal

• Tác giả: Anne Briand
• Ngôn ngữ: eng
• Ký hiệu phân loại: 628.7 Sanitary engineering for rural and sparsely populated areas
• Thông tin xuất bản: 2012
• Bộ sưu tập: Tài liệu truy cập mở
• ID: 229930
• Chủ đề: 1. Consumer Economics: Empirical Analysis D120; 2. Economic Development: Agriculture; 3. Energy; 4. Microeconomic Analyses of Economic Development O120; 5. Natural Resources

Tóm tắt

Predicting residential water demand for non-connected households that obtain connections is a crucial issue for water planners in developing countries. We propose a technique derived from Heckman (1976) to accurately measure the expected increase in water use due to access to tap water while controlling for differences in characteristics between connected and non-connected households. Illustration is made on a cross section of 246 households from Dakar, Senegal. We show that getting a tap connection induces an expected increase in water use of 26 L per capita per day.