I can think of a couple. 1) the added cost of treating water for drinking - reference and polluted. 2) the added health costs for treating sick people - reference and polluted, 3) the loss of wildlife, fish - reference and polluted, 4) added costs in road design to avoid or cross gullies. You may know many more how costs increase as a result of pollution, or modifying the reference conditions.
Ishiaku Ibrahim
In my opinion cost of environmental pollution can be divided into two groups.
1. cost of various negative externalities imposed on rural or urban life
2. cost of damaged ecological services
If you have a particular study area, then identify the impacts on both sector mentioned above.
For the first section you can take help of a questionnaire survey.
For the second section you have to conduct detailed field study or you should depend on the secondary data.
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