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Private Water Utility Landholdings: Financial and Political Implications

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2014-04-25
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Vigliotti, Tabitha
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Doyle, Martin
Conrad, Robert F.
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Abstract
Ecosystem services research has led to policies favoring watershed land protection at the federal, state, local, and private levels, notably at drinking water treatment facilities. A few researchers have connected land use and water utilities by estimating surface water treatment costs through raw water sediment load. However, more comprehensive cost-benefit research of private watershed land ownership is absent. In my research, I develop a distributional cash flow model to estimate the magnitude and timing of costs and benefits to a Connecticut private water company, the local community, and to the economy as a whole using Connecticut Public Utilities Regulatory Authority data, interviews, regulatory landscape, tax regime, and non-market valuation benefits transfer. The base case model predicts positive NPV to all parties in Connecticut: $3,828,432,329 to the economy from 2010 through 2025, where $1,461,824,087 of that is from benefits to the company and $2,366,608,242 is from benefits to the community. Sensitivity analysis implies these findings may be robust to systematic changes (+/- 10% and +/-20%) to input parameters. The distribution of costs and benefits lends itself to political economy considerations and future policy reflections.
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Master's project
Department
Nicholas School of the Environment and Earth Sciences
Subject
Cost Benefit Analysis
Drinking Water
Cash Flow Analysis
Ecosystem Services
Watershed
Valuation
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Vigliotti, Tabitha (2014). Private Water Utility Landholdings: Financial and Political Implications. Master's project, Duke University. Retrieved from https://hdl.handle.net/10161/8585.
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