PT  - JOURNAL ARTICLE
AU  - Innes, Robert
AU  - Cory, Dennis
TI  - The Economics of Safe Drinking Water
AID  - 10.2307/3146983
DP  - 2001 Feb 01
TA  - Land Economics
PG  - 94--117
VI  - 77
IP  - 1
4099  - http://le.uwpress.org/content/77/1/94.short
4100  - http://le.uwpress.org/content/77/1/94.full
SO  - Land Econ2001 Feb 01; 77
AB  - This paper studies a drinking water market in which a water company, faced with random contamination, chooses a treatment system, treatment levels, and whether to notify consumers that they should drink bottled water rather than risk exposure to contaminants in the tap water. The paper describes efficient practices including protocols which prescribe when a company should notify customers to drink bottled water, and regulatory standards on post-treatment water quality that depend upon system size, the extent of contamination, and the customer notification decision. Implications for contemporary safe drinking water law are discussed. (JEL L51, Q25).