TY - BOOK AU - Eckstein,Otto TI - Water-resource development: the economics of project evaluation AV - HD1694.A5 E25 1958 U1 - 333.91 PY - 1958/// CY - Cambridge PB - Harvard University Press KW - Water resources development KW - United States N1 - Includes index; Includes bibliographical references: p. 283-290 N2 - This book examines the federal water resource program in U.S. It analyzes the procedures for measuring benefits and costs employed by the two major agencies which are building federal water resource projects- the Bureau of Reclamation of the Department of the Interior and the Corps of Engineers, U.S Army. The analysis is based on the theory of welfare economics, it treats benefit cost analysis as a means of testing the quality of a project ER -