Occurrence of citizen complaints concerning drinking water: A case study in Quebec City

Journal of Water Supply: Research and Technology - AQUA

Volumn 58, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 257-266

  Montenegro, Pablo ^a   Rodriguez, Manuel J ^a   Miranda, Luis ^b   Joerin, Florent ^a   Proulx, François ^c  

^a UNIVERSITÉ LAVAL   (Canada)

^b MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^c Service de l'Environnement   (Canada)

Author keywords

Complaints; Drinking water; Perception; Spatial analysis; Temporal analysis; Water quality

Indexed keywords

DISTRIBUTED WATER; DISTRIBUTION SYSTEMS; DRINKING WATER; METEOROLOGICAL FACTORS; PERCEPTION; POISSON REGRESSION ANALYSIS; QUEBEC CITY; SOCIO-ECONOMICS; SPATIAL ANALYSIS; SPATIAL DIMENSION; SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION; SPATIO-TEMPORAL; TAP WATER; TEMPORAL ANALYSIS; TEMPORAL DIMENSIONS; TEMPORAL VARIABILITY;

LOCAL AREA NETWORKS; POISSON DISTRIBUTION; POTABLE WATER; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SIZE DISTRIBUTION; WATER ANALYSIS; WATER MANAGEMENT; WATER POLLUTION; WATER QUALITY;

QUALITY CONTROL;

CITIZENSHIP; DRINKING WATER; HYDROMETEOROLOGY; PARAMETERIZATION; PERCEPTION; POISSON RATIO; POPULATION STRUCTURE; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SOCIOECONOMIC CONDITIONS; SPATIAL VARIATION; WATER MANAGEMENT; WATER QUALITY; WATER RESOURCE;

CANADA; QUEBEC [CANADA];

EID: 77149159765     PISSN: 00037214     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2166/aqua.2009.089     Document Type: Article

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