As per the norms of funding, in the rural water supply programs of developing countries the choice of Level of Service (LOS) is incorporated at the stage of planning itself by the stakeholders. However, in most of the cases the stakeholders accept these programs with just the basic LOS in order...

We use data for 436 rural districts from the 2001 Census of India to examine whether different aspects of social divisions help explain the wide variation in access to tap water across rural India. Studies linking social fragmentation to public goods usually aggregate different types of...

The purpose of this study was to investigate the nature of water use a drought-inflicted region of Darfur. Economic development in this area is constrained due to the occurrence of intermittent droughts, desertification and water scarcity. Therefore, we attempted to develop an analytical...