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 …

We study adoption by more than 150,000 households of an optional transitional water tariff implemented in the South …

Massachusetts slowly shrunk by 90% for exogenous reasons between 1963 and 1990. While water supply decreased, land supply increased … shrinking, implying limited adaptation. Additionally, the negative water supply effects on fishing, farming, and herding …

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 …

services deprivation score (BSDS), which includes variables that affect health, such as access to piped water, latrines, solid …

We investigate girls' school dropout rates, bringing forward a novel variable: access to water. We hypothesise that a … girl's education suffers when her greater water need for female hygiene purposes after menarche is not met because her … household has poor access to water. For testing we use data from rural villages in the China Health and Nutrition Survey. We …

divisions help explain the wide variation in access to tap water across rural India. Studies linking social fragmentation to … for access to tap water in rural India. Communities that are heterogeneous in terms of caste (within the majority Hindu … religion) have lower access to tap water than correspondingly homogeneous communities. Communities that are fragmented across …

Flint changed its public water source in 2014, causing severe water contamination. We estimate the effect of in utero … exposure to polluted water on health at birth using the recent Flint water crisis as a natural experiment. Matching vital … results lend support to three mechanisms at work linking water contamination and birth outcomes, i.e. biological effect …

We identify regional public investment priorities by studying the development of the water pipe system in the largest … water pipe system in municipalities within the Mazovian voivodeship compared with those just outside its boundaries. The … overall post-reform difference in the length of the total water pipe network is 25% and the difference in the per …

in the geographical coverage and timing of construction of safe government piped water schemes to identify the effects of …