Table 11 Overall results and global literature on water quality improvement services (US$/Year). WQIC = water quality improvement value in cash
Category | Our study | Other global references | |||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
(Shrestha and Alavalapati 2004) | (Chaikaew, Hodges et al. 2017) | (Aguilar, Obeng et al. 2018) | (Tao, Yan et al. 2012) | (Johnson and Baltodano 2004) | (Dauda, Yacob et al. 2014) | (Roesch-McNally and Rabotyagov 2016) | (Milon, Hodges et al. 1999) | (Mueller 2014) | (Mueller et al. 2019) | ||
Country | |||||||||||
Nepal | USA | USA | USA | China | Nicaragua | Nigeria | USA | USA | USA | USA | |
WQIC | US$ 3.8–US$ 9.0 | 30.24–71.17/HH/year | US$ 2/HH/year | US$ 42–73/HH/year | US$ 34.44/HH/year | US$ 4.5/HH/year | 19.5–107/HH/year | 4.71–12.64/HH/year | US$ 60–70/HH/year | US$ 59/HH/year | US$ 59/HH/year |