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Groundwater currently provides 98 percent of all the drinking water supply in Bangladesh. Groundwater is found …. Yet, no national-scale, multi-hazard groundwater risk maps currently exist enabling water resource managers and policy …-hazard groundwater risk maps reveal areas and exposure of population groups to water risks posed by arsenic and salinity contamination …
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water services. This study estimates the magnitudes of the combined water and electricity subsidies received by households … with private connections to the electricity grid and piped water network in 2016, and it evaluates the distribution of … tariffs for electricity and water in an urban area in a developing country. The results show that the combined subsidies are …
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Vulnerability to climate change and water scarcity is increasing globally. How this affects individual employment …-Saharan Africa over from 2005 to 2018, this paper examines the causal relationship between water availability and labor market … rainfall and temperature on water availability. The findings suggest that extremely dry periods decrease employment by 2 …
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specified types of water and sanitation services in Nigeria. The analysis uses geo-located, population-representative data from … for levels of access to seven indicators of water and sanitation services across Nigeria at a resolution of 1x1 square … the National Water and Sanitation Survey 2015, along with relevant geo-spatial covariates. The model generates predictions …
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This paper utilizes information from the 2015 Nigeria National Water and Sanitation Survey to identify the extent and … timing of the failure of water schemes in the country and the factors affecting it. Around 46 percent of all the water … schemes in Nigeria are nonfunctional, and approximately 30 percent are likely to fail in the first year. The results indicate …
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This paper utilizes information from the 2015 Nigeria National Water and Sanitation Survey to identify the extent …, timing, as well as reasons for the failure of water points. The paper finds that more than 38 percent of all improved water … points are nonfunctional. The results indicate that nearly 27 percent of the water points are likely to fail in the first …
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