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This essay was written for an essay competition organised by Pakistan council for Research in Water Resources. It … explains the current water scenario and prediction about future condition. …
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In this paper, it is shown the relationship between coverage in water and sanitation, and hydric disease’s incidence … studied the particular case of its application to the Millennium Development Goals in water and sanitation. …
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mitigating erosion on sloping land, stabilizing landscapes, providing clean water, stabilizing and improving agrarian production …. Watershed management is a holistic concept, which tries to integrate several components like soil and water conservation …
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In emerging markets and economies with limited supplies of potable water, the current monetary policy governing water … water systems; however, even well funded systems are operating under potentially tenuous circumstances. The goal of this … thesis is to offer an alternative to current global policies, through a new paradigm, a water based monetary standard. The …
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. The US company, however, based its opostition in the capital city's peculiar relationship with water. Built over a dried …
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In this paper we examine the nexus of water an energy scarcity in South Africa. The fresh water resources of the … country are close to exhaustion (Business Day, 2009; Turton, 2008)⁠, yet safe drinking water is not yet universally available … to all in the country – in spite of a government policy to provide water for basic needs, taken to be 25ℓ per person per …
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This report reviews recent trends in household access to infrastructure services and associated budgetary expenditures in Africa. It is based on a pooled database that draws upon the entire body of household surveys conducted in sub-Saharan Africa in the last 15 years.
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Since the Great Depression of the 1930s, it was common knowledge in the Latin American water and sanitation sector the …
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Nearly nine million children under five years of age die annually. Diarrhea is considered to be the second leading cause of Under-5 mortality in developing countries. About one out of five deaths are caused by diarrhea. In this paper, we use the newly available data set DLHS-3 to quantify the...
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consumption of production factors, among them, water and energy, essential to most productive activities. However, as the supply … this paper is to identify the main demanding sectors of water and electric power of Ceará and to estimate the impact in the … are the more demanding on the consumption of water and electric power due to variations in the final demand, as well as …
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