This paper provides new evidence on how effectively piped water consumption subsidies are targeting poor households in … goal of improving the accessibility and affordability of piped water for poor households. Instead, the majority of … segments typically face challenges in accessing and connecting to piped water services. The paper also reveals shortcomings in …

, including increased water extraction, poor irrigation management, and sea-level rise. To date no study has attempted to quantify … regional agricultural productivity to changes in water salinity. To do so, it utilizes several local and global data sets on … water quality and agricultural productivity and a model that isolates the impact of exogenous changes in water salinity on …

population. This study uncovers the effect of poor water infrastructure on the productivity of informal firms. This is achieved … standard deviation of the total duration of water shortages in a month can lead to annual average losses of about 14.5 percent … of the monthly sales per worker for the average informal firm in the sample that uses water for business activities …

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 …

economy. This study examines how water infrastructure copes with severe weather fluctuations and analyzes the effect of … unreliable water supplies on the productivity of manufacturing firms, focusing predominately on firms in developing economies … to higher water outages, and that the overall impact is driven by the effects of drought on low-income and lower …

According to the 2015 Tanzania Water Point Mapping data, about 29 percent of all water points are non-functional, out … of which 20 percent failed within the first year. This paper analyzes the various factors which impact water point … failure and measures the relative contributions of these determinants. The results indicate that water points managed by …