"Safe water is widely recognized as both a fundamental human need and a key input into economic activity. Across the … developing world, the typical approach to addressing these needs is to segregate supplies of water for domestic use from water … for large-scale agricultural production. In that arrangement, the goal of domestic water supply is to provide small …

This paper estimates hedonic models of rental prices to investigate household preferences regarding water services in … rural Guatemala. Estimated values for water services are compared across municipal, private, and community-managed water … utilities. Findings indicate that rural households value municipal water services but are indifferent between not having piped …