A framework for the economic analysis of alternative management plans for public drainage ditch systems is presented. The framework combines enterprise budgeting techniques with a flexible, spatially disaggregated, database framework. The approach is demonstrated with test data for public ditch...

The paper examines the incentives that affect public water systems' decisions to notify the public of contamination incidents. A unique dataset on the public notification (PN) of maximum contamination level violations is used to analyze the determinants of, and the impact of regulatory change...