A computer simulation analysis of surface water quality management policies under dynamic economic and hydrologic conditions.

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The general purpose of this research is to determine the optimal economic wastewater treatment levels for individual users in a river basin. This dissertation presents concepts, however, which are applicable in the general area of the economics of environmental quality management. There are two specific objectives of this research: 1. to examine the relationship of the treatment and damage costs when the economic optimum is obtained, and 2. to present a prototype simulation program for analyzing water quality management policies. The specific case used in this study consists of a series of firrns located along a river, such as municipalities, wet process industries, or recreational facilities, which have the river as their only source of raw water supply, and as the ultimate discharge point of their wastewater. A given firm thus imposes damages, in the form of pollution of intake water, on those located downstream of it. The magnitude of these damages depends on how much waste this fir

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