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that more educated women complied more with the program's water disinfection training, highlighting that even simple, low …-cost technologies require final users' compliance ("the last mile") to be effective. In the context of growing water scarcity …
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We study adoption by more than 150,000 households of an optional transitional water tariff implemented in the South …
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similar hydropower potential. Until mid-century, the availability of cheap local power from hydroelectric dams conveyed an …
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Climate change and the increasing demand of water intensify the global water cycle, altering the distribution of water …). As water is key to life, water scarcity is likely to provoke conflict. Using grid-cell data for Africa and central … water mass declines. We measure water mass anomalies based on changes in Earth's gravity field recorded by GRACE and link …
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In this paper we propose an economic model for the optimum allocation of water within a given area with the following … features. First, the introduction of the institutional, geographical and time scheme under which the water rights are granted … some of the users. Particular attention is paid to the influence of the time and space variables on both the water demand …
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This paper presents a method for assessing small hydropower projects that are subject to uncertain electricity prices … of a small hydropower plant is dealt with using a spreadsheet model that performs a technical simulation of the …. The method is illustrated on three different Norwegian small hydropower projects. …
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hydropower plants that are beneficial for two reasons. First, it would produce clean power in the country. Second, cost of …
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We exploit exogenous variation in the risk of waterborne disease created by implementation of a major water reform in … differentiated impacts is that the water reform induces parents to make complementary investments in education that favor girls … water provision to narrow test score gaps across countries and, within countries, across gender. …
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services deprivation score (BSDS), which includes variables that affect health, such as access to piped water, latrines, solid …
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productivity from adoption of genetically modified soybeans and look at externalities across municipalities sharing the same water … externality effects of glyphosate use on populations distant from the original locations of use, but receiving water from these …
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