{"title":"Deficient Public Infrastructure and Private Costs: Evidence from a Time-Use Survey for the Water Sector in India","authors":"L. Chakraborty","doi":"10.2139/ssrn.1156900","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.1156900","url":null,"abstract":"This paper presents new evidence on the links between public-infrastructure provisioning and time allocation related to the water sector in India. An analysis of time-use data reveals that worsening public infrastructure affects market work, with evident gender differentials. The results also suggest that access to public infrastructure can lead to substitution effects in time allocation between unpaid work and market work. The broad conclusion of the paper is that public-investment policy can redress intrahousehold inequalities, in terms of labor-supply decisions, by supporting initiatives that reduce the allocation of time in nonmarket work.","PeriodicalId":311687,"journal":{"name":"SRPN: Water Supply (Topic)","volume":"112 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2008-07-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"116440652","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Water Scarcity in Chennai: A Financial-Economic Appraisal of Rain Water Harvesting","authors":"S. Rajendran","doi":"10.2139/ssrn.1152239","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.1152239","url":null,"abstract":"The present day shortage of water, quite often termed, as water crisis is a human made disaster. Two major shifts in water management account for this disaster, the state emerging as the provider of water supply and the decline in the practice of technology of using rainwater. In a city like Chennai, in the present scenario, the most feasible and comprehensive solution to tackle the problem of water shortage is to adopt rainwater-harvesting techniques with their costs. Considering the acute problem of water scarcity that many are likely to face in the near future, it would seem prudent not to ignore the direct management of nature's simplest and most fundamental source of fresh water, rain. The paper mainly deals with the water demand and supply pattern of Chennai city and explains how implementing Rain Water Harvesting (RWH) can fill up the yawing gap between the demand and the supply pattern. The paper also examines the different types of RWH structures that can be adopted in residential apartments. The paper mainly discusses the economical parameters in the implementation of RWH as well as intervention of government in rainwater Harvesting (RWH). Finally the paper suggests measures to ease the water scarcity in Chennai. Using the cost-benefit analysis (net present value of benefit) incorporating risk and uncertainty, the study shows that the economically RWH System is viable and worthwhile, compare with financial analysis.","PeriodicalId":311687,"journal":{"name":"SRPN: Water Supply (Topic)","volume":"74 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2008-06-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"116032025","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}