More than a drop in the bucket: Decentralized membrane-based drinking water refill stations in southeast Asia

Environmental Science and Technology

Volumn 47, Issue 14, 2013, Pages 7580-7588

  Sima, Laura C ^a   Elimelech, Menachem ^a  

^a Yale University   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BUSINESS MODELS; MEMBRANE-BASED; OPERATIONAL SUSTAINABILITY; REFILL STATION; SOUTHEAST ASIA; TECHNICAL CHALLENGES; VIABLE SOLUTIONS;

ENVIRONMENTAL TECHNOLOGY; PURCHASING;

SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT;

ACTIVATED CARBON; DRINKING WATER; ARTIFICIAL MEMBRANE;

DRINKING WATER; MEMBRANE; NUMERICAL MODEL; SUSTAINABILITY; TECHNOLOGICAL DEVELOPMENT; WATER TREATMENT;

ARTICLE; CHLORINATION; COMMERCIAL PHENOMENA; CONSUMER; DECENTRALIZATION; DISINFECTION; ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT; ENVIRONMENTAL SUSTAINABILITY; HUMAN; MEMBRANE TECHNOLOGY; REVERSE OSMOSIS; SOUTHEAST ASIA; ULTRAFILTRATION; WATER TREATMENT; ARTIFICIAL MEMBRANE; DEVICES; POVERTY; WATER MANAGEMENT;

SOUTHEAST ASIA;

ASIA, SOUTHEASTERN; DRINKING WATER; MEMBRANES, ARTIFICIAL; POVERTY; WATER PURIFICATION;

EID: 84880553425     PISSN: 0013936X     EISSN: 15205851     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/es304384n     Document Type: Article

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