BetaBetaDataset
To investigate a household’s willingness to pay for domestic water in the transboundary Mékrou River Basin in West Africa (Burkina Faso, Benin and Niger) and explore the payment for domestic water provision to poverty.
There is little evidence so far concerning the domestic water supply demand in rural areas of developing countries, where water sources vary among households and water uses may comprise the productive ones. This study examines the factors that influence people's willingness to pay for improved domestic water services.
A downloadable PDF file with figures and tables describing; the main socioeconomic characteristics of the surveyed population, connection in the water network and actual payments, main sources of provided domestic water, distance and time to the water resource, techniques used at the household to improve water quality, the main problem in the domestic water provision, daily household domestic water consumption and expenses, main water provision related problem in the Mékrou Basin.
Data collected from household survey - households were selected randomly based on their location in the village/town keeping a distance of five households between the interviewing ones