A nationwide assessment of wastewater use in Pakistan: An obscure activity or a vitally important one?

Water Policy

Volumn 6, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 197-206

  Ensink, Jeroen H J ^a   Mahmood, Tariq ^b   Van Der Hoek, Wim ^c   Raschid Sally, Liqa ^c   Amerasinghe, Felix P ^c  

^a INTERNATIONAL CROPS RESEARCH INSTITUTE FOR THE SEMI ARID TROPICS ICRISAT   (India)

^b INTERNATIONAL WATER MANAGEMENT INSTITUTE   (Pakistan)

^c INTERNATIONAL WATER MANAGEMENT INSTITUTE   (Sri Lanka)

Author keywords

Agriculture; Irrigation; Nationwide assessment; Pakistan; Vegetables; Wastewater use

Indexed keywords

EID: 3543120755     PISSN: 13667017     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2166/wp.2004.0013     Document Type: Article

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