Defining the Financial Capacity of Rural Communities to Meet Sewer and Water Needs

Authors

Ray SupallaFollow
Saeed Ahmad, University of Nebraska - Lincoln

Date of this Version

July 1997

Comments

A Selected paper submitted for the annual meeting of the Western American Agricultural Economics Association, Reno, Nevada, July 13-16, 1997.

Abstract

The relative ability of rural communities to pay for sewer and water systems was analyzed. It was found that median household income, as currently used for many grant programs, is a poor measure of relative need. An alternative approach using measures of wealth and income distribution was developed.