Thursday, May 17, 2012

EPA Faces Potential Data Quality Hurdles In Bid To Calculate 'Value Of Water'

EPA advisers, as well as agency staff economists, are signaling that officials face data quality hurdles in their effort to craft a study that quantifies the value of water to the U.S. economy -- a concern that may limit EPA's ability to cite the study's estimated benefits in any future bid to justify strict water quality controls.


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