TY - JOUR
T1 - A Bayesian method to estimate proportional payments of users in a wastewater treatment plant
AU - Gómez-Muñoz, Victor M.
AU - Porta-Gándara, Miguel Angel
AU - Gortari, Jaime Cervantes De
N1 - Funding Information:
The authors appreciate the financial support from the National Council of Science and Technology of Mexico (CONACyT), Grant no. G35167-U.
PY - 2006/1
Y1 - 2006/1
N2 - A simple Bayesian method to estimate proportional payments for using or constructing a wastewater treatment plant is presented. The method addresses the usually unknown individual participation in global pollution, of municipal and industrial wastewaters that are normally discharged into the same collecting pond. The individual contributions are calculated from the discharged volume of each source and its pollution percentage in the wastewater volume previous to the disposal. According to the method presented here, the costs in building and/or running the plant can be covered by proportional individual payments based on the individual contributions, in a more even way. The simplicity of the model allows to assess different strategies for the participants in a wastewater treatment system. A real case study in the Izta-Popo National Park, located in the Mexican States of Puebla, Mexico and Morelos, is analyzed.
AB - A simple Bayesian method to estimate proportional payments for using or constructing a wastewater treatment plant is presented. The method addresses the usually unknown individual participation in global pollution, of municipal and industrial wastewaters that are normally discharged into the same collecting pond. The individual contributions are calculated from the discharged volume of each source and its pollution percentage in the wastewater volume previous to the disposal. According to the method presented here, the costs in building and/or running the plant can be covered by proportional individual payments based on the individual contributions, in a more even way. The simplicity of the model allows to assess different strategies for the participants in a wastewater treatment system. A real case study in the Izta-Popo National Park, located in the Mexican States of Puebla, Mexico and Morelos, is analyzed.
KW - Bayes
KW - Pollution
KW - Wastewater
KW - Water remediation
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=29644439797&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1016/j.watres.2005.11.005
DO - 10.1016/j.watres.2005.11.005
M3 - Artículo
SN - 0043-1354
VL - 40
SP - 175
EP - 181
JO - Water Research
JF - Water Research
IS - 1
ER -