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Comparative Costs of Municipal Wastewater Treatment

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  10 May 2017

C. Edwin Young*
Affiliation:
NRED, ERS, USDA, and The Pennsylvania State University
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Resource and Environmental Economics
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Copyright © Northeastern Agricultural and Resource Economics Association 

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