Water supply and poor communities: What's price got to do with it?

Environment

Volumn 45, Issue 10, 2003, Pages 22-35

  Olmstead, Sheila M ^a  

^a YALE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DRINKING WATER; FRESH WATER;

AFRICA; ASIA; CAPITAL; CENTRAL AMERICA; CHILDHOOD MORTALITY; CHOLERA; COMMUNITY CARE; COST; CROP; DEVELOPING COUNTRY; ELECTRICITY; ENVIRONMENT; ENVIRONMENTAL SUSTAINABILITY; EUROPE; FLUID INTAKE; HEALTH; HOUSEHOLD; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; INFECTION; INVESTMENT; IRRIGATION (AGRICULTURE); NORTH AMERICA; ORGANIZATION AND MANAGEMENT; POLICY; PRODUCTIVITY; PUBLIC HEALTH SERVICE; RESOURCE MANAGEMENT; REVIEW; RURAL POPULATION; SANITATION; SOCIAL STATUS; SOCIETY; SOUTH AMERICA; SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT; TAX; TRACHOMA; TYPHOID FEVER; UNITED STATES; URBAN POPULATION; VIRUS HEPATITIS; WATER MANAGEMENT; WATER SUPPLY; WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION;

EID: 0345283209     PISSN: 00139157     EISSN: 19399154     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/00139150309604574     Document Type: Article

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