WILLINGNESS TO PAY FOR WATER QUALITY IMPROVEMENT IN HANDICRAFT VILLAGES OF BAC NINH PROVINCE, VIETNAM

  • Le Thi Phuong Dung
  • and Nguyen Huu Dat

Abstract

The study was conducted to survey one thousand households (HH) from 5 out of 62 villages in Bac Ninh province to estimate people’s willingness to pay (WTP) for water quality improvement, to identify the factors affecting people’s willingness to pay. Respondents are the heads of household. The Turnbull technique was used to estimate expected willingness to pay for water quality improvement. Results of this research show that the average WTP is 485.273 VND per per HH per per year. The potential fundsobtainedwould beapproximately 6 billion VND per year (268,251 USD per year) and the real fundswould have a value of 3.45 billion VND per year (154,475 USD per year). For Bac Ninh province, the total funding that would really be achieved would be 100.2 billion VND per year (4.48 million USD). Potential funding has a value of 155.4 billion VND per year (6.9 million USD). Several factors positively impact the WTP of HH with HH type, trade-off between economic growth and environmental quality, using tap water, and income of HH being significant statistic variables with positive coefficients. These coefficients indicate that the heads of handicraft households who have high incomes, agree to sacrifice environmental quality to get fast economic growth, and who use tap water are more likely to say “yes” to the given bid. The factors of village and bid had negative coefficients and high statistical significance.

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Published
2017-09-19
Section
ECONOMICS, SOCIETY AND RURAL DEVELOPMENT