Related Experiment Video
Updated: Aug 14, 2026

Vegetated Treatment Systems for Removing Contaminants Associated with Surface Water Toxicity in Agriculture and Urban Runoff
Published on: May 15, 2017
A Bayesian method to estimate proportional payments of users in a wastewater treatment plant
Victor M Gómez-Muñoz1, Miguel Angel Porta-Gándara, Jaime Cervantes de Gortari
1Centro Interdisciplinario de Ciencias Marinas, Instituto Politécnico Nacional, Apartado Postal 592, La Paz, Baja California Sur. México 23090, Mexico.
Abstract:
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.
Related Concept Videos
Mechanistic Models: Compartment Models in Individual and Population Analysis
Sample Proportion and Population Proportion
Microbial Wastewater Treatment
Distributions to Estimate Population Parameter
Analysis of Population Pharmacokinetic Data
Model Approaches for Pharmacokinetic Data: Distributed Parameter Models
The distributed parameter models are specifically designed to account for variations and differences in some drug classes. This model is particularly useful for assessing regional concentrations of anticancer or...

