Informal Small-Scale Water Services in Developing Countries: The Business of Water for Those without Formal Municipal Connections

Water and Sanitation-Related Diseases and the Environment: Challenges, Interventions, and Preventive Measures

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 231-240

  Sima, Laura ^a   Elimelech, Menachem ^a  

^a YALE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Informal water services sector; Types of informal businesses; Water kiosks, poorer consumers

Indexed keywords

EID: 84872945011     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1002/9781118148594.ch19     Document Type: Chapter

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