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Land Treatment of Municipal Wastewater: A Cooperative Approach to Management

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  10 May 2017

Lee A. Christensen*
Affiliation:
Natural Resource Economics Div., USDA-ERS, Broomall, Pa.
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Communities across the country are faced with the legal requirements to reduce water pollution from domestic and industrial wastes discharged into streams and rivers. Approximately 7½ billion gallons of wastewater were produced daily in the United States in 1972. This volume is estimated to quadruple over the next 50 years.

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Resource and Environmental Economics
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Copyright © Northeastern Agricultural and Resource Economics Association 

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