Municipal water demand and efficiency analysis: Case studies in Turkey

Water Policy

Volumn 12, Issue 5, 2010, Pages 695-706

  Burak, Selmin ^a   Mat, Hakan ^b  

^a ISTANBUL UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

^b MAT Consult International Management Engineering Environmental and Information Technologies Ltd Co   (Turkey)

Author keywords

ar amba; Ceyhan; Demand management; Efficiency index; Municipal water; Non revenue water (NRW); Ordu

Indexed keywords

EID: 77958105736     PISSN: 13667017     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2166/wp.2009.209     Document Type: Article

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