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Less. In this regard, tackling agricultural pollution represents a key challenge for Vietnam. Pollution has started to take … evidence and public concern about pollution have led the Vietnamese government to adopt a new outlook and to take measures to … evidence on the nature and magnitude of agricultural pollution in Vietnam, looking across the livestock, aquaculture, and crops …
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broad national overview on (a) pollution related to livestock development-its magnitude, impacts, and drivers; (b) measures … that are currently in place to manage or mitigate waste pollution in different farming systems and the potential for …
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-risk functions for major health outcomes of air pollution from the Global Burden of Disease study to estimate the health effects … air pollution follows a recent World Bank report, using a cross-country transfer method of the value of statistical life … generally found to constitute a relatively minor share of the health costs of air pollution …
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Approximately 4.1 million people live in the three states of the Yucatan Peninsula: Quintana Roo, Yucatan, and Campeche. Some 30 municipalities are in a coastal territory of almost 2,000 linear kilometers, from the oil fields of the Gulf of Mexico to the world-renowned beaches of Cancun, just...
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The costs of meeting the SDG WASH targets will be several times higher than investment levels during the MDG era (2000-15). The immense scale of the financing gap calls for innovative solutions. In addition to mobilizing more funding another approach is to deliver the needed infrastructure more...
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The objective of this report is to better understand the challenges of meeting Sustainable Development Goal 6.1 from the perspective of off-grid services currently being used by a large and increasing proportion of the urban population. For this assessment, two key distinct areas with high...
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Today about 676 million urban residents, many of them poor, do not have access to the Joint Monitoring Programme (JMP) definition of "safely managed" water supplies. They receive an off-grid water supply service that is not safely managed, accessible, or affordable, and thus not compliant with...
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This paper presents the findings of an impact evaluation to assess the performance and sustainability of the demand responsive community-based approach toward rural water supply in the state of Kerala, India. To achieve the study's objectives, conceptual definitions of the "performance" and...
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Providing sustainable water supply and sanitation (WSS) services in developing countries remains an immense, and increasingly urgent, challenge. Chapter two sets out how the sector is currently funded and why business as usual is insufficient for meeting WSS-related goals, covering the size of...
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Groundwater currently provides 98 percent of all the drinking water supply in Bangladesh. Groundwater is found throughout Bangladesh but its quality (that is, arsenic and salinity contamination) and quantity (that is, water storage depletion) vary across hydrological environments, posing unique...
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