Household’s willingness to pay for drinking water quality service improvement in Damaturu, Nigeria.
Human existence depends largely on availability of water both in high quality and sustainable supply. Improved quality drinking water has the ability to improve our standard of living, reduces mortality rates and morbidity associated with water born diseases. Damaturu have witnessed unprecedented in...
| Main Authors: | , , , |
|---|---|
| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English English |
| Published: |
Enviro Research Publishers
2013
|
| Online Access: | http://psasir.upm.edu.my/id/eprint/28951/ http://psasir.upm.edu.my/id/eprint/28951/1/Household%E2%80%99s%20willingness%20to%20pay%20for%20drinking%20water%20quality%20service%20improvement%20in%20Damaturu%2C%20Nigeria..pdf |
| _version_ | 1848846259007258624 |
|---|---|
| author | Yacob, Mohd Rusli Dauda, Suleiman Alhaji Radam, Alias Samdin, Zaiton |
| author_facet | Yacob, Mohd Rusli Dauda, Suleiman Alhaji Radam, Alias Samdin, Zaiton |
| author_sort | Yacob, Mohd Rusli |
| building | UPM Institutional Repository |
| collection | Online Access |
| description | Human existence depends largely on availability of water both in high quality and sustainable supply. Improved quality drinking water has the ability to improve our standard of living, reduces mortality rates and morbidity associated with water born diseases. Damaturu have witnessed unprecedented increase and influx of population due to its new status by been made the capital of Yobe State in 1991, provision of safe drinking water thus became a matter of serious concern and this led to prevalence of water borne diseases like diarrhea and other gastro intestinal disorder. Yobe State has embarked on the construction of “Damaturu regional water supply project” which promises 100% access to portable water to Damaturu. The general objective of the study is to assess the household’s willingness to pay for an improved quality drinking water. Choice experiment approach was used, and four attributes of drinking water quality were identified namely; tap water quality (TWQ), Tap water supply (TWS) tap water pressure (TWP) and Price. Conditional logit model (CLM), involving randomized sampling of 300 respondents was carried out. The results were found that respondents with higher level of education are more willing to pay. Identifying the mix of attributes and their prices based on respondents’ drinking water quality demand preferences would help policy makers to know and provides the households with a preferred and affordable drinking water and also facilitates effective tariff structure for cost recovery and sustainability. |
| first_indexed | 2025-11-15T08:59:52Z |
| format | Article |
| id | upm-28951 |
| institution | Universiti Putra Malaysia |
| institution_category | Local University |
| language | English English |
| last_indexed | 2025-11-15T08:59:52Z |
| publishDate | 2013 |
| publisher | Enviro Research Publishers |
| recordtype | eprints |
| repository_type | Digital Repository |
| spelling | upm-289512015-10-23T07:47:21Z http://psasir.upm.edu.my/id/eprint/28951/ Household’s willingness to pay for drinking water quality service improvement in Damaturu, Nigeria. Yacob, Mohd Rusli Dauda, Suleiman Alhaji Radam, Alias Samdin, Zaiton Human existence depends largely on availability of water both in high quality and sustainable supply. Improved quality drinking water has the ability to improve our standard of living, reduces mortality rates and morbidity associated with water born diseases. Damaturu have witnessed unprecedented increase and influx of population due to its new status by been made the capital of Yobe State in 1991, provision of safe drinking water thus became a matter of serious concern and this led to prevalence of water borne diseases like diarrhea and other gastro intestinal disorder. Yobe State has embarked on the construction of “Damaturu regional water supply project” which promises 100% access to portable water to Damaturu. The general objective of the study is to assess the household’s willingness to pay for an improved quality drinking water. Choice experiment approach was used, and four attributes of drinking water quality were identified namely; tap water quality (TWQ), Tap water supply (TWS) tap water pressure (TWP) and Price. Conditional logit model (CLM), involving randomized sampling of 300 respondents was carried out. The results were found that respondents with higher level of education are more willing to pay. Identifying the mix of attributes and their prices based on respondents’ drinking water quality demand preferences would help policy makers to know and provides the households with a preferred and affordable drinking water and also facilitates effective tariff structure for cost recovery and sustainability. Enviro Research Publishers 2013 Article PeerReviewed application/pdf en http://psasir.upm.edu.my/id/eprint/28951/1/Household%E2%80%99s%20willingness%20to%20pay%20for%20drinking%20water%20quality%20service%20improvement%20in%20Damaturu%2C%20Nigeria..pdf Yacob, Mohd Rusli and Dauda, Suleiman Alhaji and Radam, Alias and Samdin, Zaiton (2013) Household’s willingness to pay for drinking water quality service improvement in Damaturu, Nigeria. Current World Environment, 8 (3). pp. 381-389. ISSN 0973-4929; ESSN: 2320-8031 http://www.cwejournal.org/toc/?vol=8&no=3 English |
| spellingShingle | Yacob, Mohd Rusli Dauda, Suleiman Alhaji Radam, Alias Samdin, Zaiton Household’s willingness to pay for drinking water quality service improvement in Damaturu, Nigeria. |
| title | Household’s willingness to pay for drinking water quality service improvement in Damaturu, Nigeria. |
| title_full | Household’s willingness to pay for drinking water quality service improvement in Damaturu, Nigeria. |
| title_fullStr | Household’s willingness to pay for drinking water quality service improvement in Damaturu, Nigeria. |
| title_full_unstemmed | Household’s willingness to pay for drinking water quality service improvement in Damaturu, Nigeria. |
| title_short | Household’s willingness to pay for drinking water quality service improvement in Damaturu, Nigeria. |
| title_sort | household’s willingness to pay for drinking water quality service improvement in damaturu, nigeria. |
| url | http://psasir.upm.edu.my/id/eprint/28951/ http://psasir.upm.edu.my/id/eprint/28951/ http://psasir.upm.edu.my/id/eprint/28951/1/Household%E2%80%99s%20willingness%20to%20pay%20for%20drinking%20water%20quality%20service%20improvement%20in%20Damaturu%2C%20Nigeria..pdf |