Accounting for water quality in monitoring access to safe drinking-water as part of the millennium development goals: Lessons from fve countries;Rapport sur la qualité de l'eau du suivi de l'accès à l'eau potable dans le cadre des objectifs du millénaire pour le développement: Les leçons de cinq pays

Bulletin of the World Health Organization

Volumn 90, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 228-235

  Bain, Rob E S ^a   Gundry, Stephen W ^a   Wright, Jim A ^b   Yang, Hong ^b   Pedley, Steve ^c   Bartram, Jamie K ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRISTOL   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHAMPTON   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF SURREY   (United Kingdom)

^d UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DRINKING WATER;

DRINKING WATER; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; MILLENIUM DEVELOPMENT GOAL; SAFETY; WATER QUALITY; WATER SUPPLY; WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION;

ARTICLE; ETHIOPIA; FOOD SAFETY; JORDAN; MICROBIAL CONTAMINATION; MONITORING; NICARAGUA; NIGERIA; POPULATION DENSITY; TAJIKISTAN; WATER CONTAMINATION; WATER QUALITY; WATER SUPPLY;

DRINKING WATER; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; GOALS; HEALTH PLANNING; HEALTH PROMOTION; HUMANS; INTERNATIONALITY; SOCIAL MARKETING; WATER QUALITY; WORLD HEALTH;

EID: 84863230328     PISSN: 00429686     EISSN: 15640604     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2471/BLT.11.094284     Document Type: Article

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