Abstract
To improve surface water quality in developing countries new approaches to design wastewater treatment schemes have been developed. We identify a compliance problem in these schemes which threatens their success. To analyze this problem, we integrate a compliance game into a model of the urban water chain. We illustrate the model with a numerical example on small scale leather processing. We find that the compliance problem indeed threatens the overall success of the treatment scheme and show under which conditions this is so. With an empirical calibration our model is a ready to use tool to provide quantitative results that can inform planners of urban wastewater treatment schemes.
| Original language | English |
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| Pages (from-to) | 149-160 |
| Number of pages | 12 |
| Journal | Urban Water Journal |
| Volume | 9 |
| Issue number | 3 |
| DOIs | |
| Publication status | Published - 2012 |
Keywords
- salt inhibition
- performance
- pollution
- irrigation
- effluent
- benefits
- reuse