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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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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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In the Philippines, the Public-Private-Community Partnerships (PPCPs) are serving the poor with water through public … faucets, group taps, bulk water, and individual connections. The removal of technical and institutional barriers in providing … water in urban poor communities or informal settlements in Metro Manila has allowed delivery of different forms of water …
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management unit. There are three foci of inquiry with regards to attempts to adopt a watershed-based approach to water resources …
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The following are offered as guiding principles in the involvement of LGUs in water resources management. • For LGUs to … adopt an integrated, holistic approach in addressing the inherently interrelated issues of water supply planning and … operation, demand management, pollution control, and watershed and ground water protection. • For LGUs to manage water not only …
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