A atual complexidade dos sistemas de abastecimento de agua urbanos e os seus altos custos de manutencao e expansao requerem dos formuladores de politica informacoes mais precisas sobre as condicoes que afetam as funcoes de demanda e oferta desse servico de utilidade publica. Nesse sentido, este...

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...

This paper studies the general deterrence effect associated with regulatory enforcement actions, using data on the quality violations and regulatory enforcement records of all 141,290 active drinking water systems in the U.S. between 1980 and 2017. We find that general deterrence among drinking...