A Financial, Environmental and Social Evaluation of Domestic Water Management Options in the West Bank, Palestine

Water Resources Management

Volumn 24, Issue 15, 2010, Pages 4445-4467

  Nazer, Dima W ^a   Siebel, Maarten A ^b   van der Zaag, Pieter ^b,c   Mimi, Ziad ^d   Gijzen, Huub J ^e  

^a Palestine Technical College   (Palestine)

^b UNESCO IHE INSTITUTE FOR WATER EDUCATION   (Netherlands)

^c DELFT UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Netherlands)

^d BIRZEIT UNIVERSITY   (Palestine)

^e Regional Science Bureau for Asia and the Pacific Indonesia   (Indonesia)

Author keywords

Environmental impact; Financial assessment; House hold water management; Social impact assessment; Water reuse; Water scarcity; West Bank

Indexed keywords

FINANCIAL ASSESSMENT; SOCIAL IMPACT ASSESSMENTS; WATER REUSE; WATER SCARCITY; WEST BANK;

ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT; ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT ASSESSMENTS; HOUSES; MANAGEMENT; WASTEWATER RECLAMATION; WATER MANAGEMENT; WATER SUPPLY;

WATER CONSERVATION;

ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT; LIFE CYCLE ANALYSIS; QUALITY OF LIFE; SOCIAL IMPACT ASSESSMENT; WATER ECONOMICS; WATER MANAGEMENT; WATER RESOURCE; WATER SUPPLY; WATER USE;

OCCUPIED TERRITORIES; PALESTINE; WEST BANK;

EID: 78249249566     PISSN: 09204741     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11269-010-9667-z     Document Type: Article

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