Fighting for the right to use wastewater: What drives the use of untreated wastewater in a peri-urban Village of Faisalabad, Pakistan?

Water International

Volumn 36, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 522-534

  Weckenbrock, Philipp ^a   Evans, Alexandra ^b   Majeed, Muhammad Qaiser ^c   Ahmad, Waqas ^d   Bashir, Nasir ^c   Drescher, Axel ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FREIBURG   (Germany)

^b INTERNATIONAL WATER MANAGEMENT INSTITUTE   (Sri Lanka)

^c UNIVERSITY OF AGRICULTURE   (Pakistan)

^d INTERNATIONAL WATER MANAGEMENT INSTITUTE   (Pakistan)

Author keywords

Coping strategies; Irrigation; Punjab; Water scarcity

Indexed keywords

EID: 80051620524     PISSN: 02508060     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/02508060.2011.596323     Document Type: Article

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