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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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. But these measures need to be based on a holistic understanding of sustainability. Large hydropower projects are not a … technologically mature, environmentally destructive and non-renewable forms of energy such as large hydropower. URL …
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The construction of large dams is one of the most costly and controversial forms of public infrastructure investment in developing countries, but little is known about their impact. This paper studies the productivity and distributional effects of large dams in India. To account for endogenous...
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With 11 large hydropower dams proposed to block the Lower Mekong River’s mainstream, the future of the river lies at …
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hydropower dams on the Mekong River’s lower mainstream. If built, these dams would harm the river’s ecology and block the …
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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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