Predictors of sustainability for community-managed handpumps in sub-saharan Africa: Evidence from Liberia, Sierra Leone, and Uganda

Environmental Science and Technology

Volumn 47, Issue 21, 2013, Pages 12037-12046

  Foster, Tim ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

LOGISTIC REGRESSION ANALYSIS; MULTI VARIABLES; OPERATION AND MAINTENANCE; RISK FACTORS; RURAL WATER SUPPLY; RURAL WATERS; SIERRA LEONE; SUB-SAHARAN AFRICA;

REGRESSION ANALYSIS; RURAL AREAS; WATER QUALITY; WATER SUPPLY;

SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT;

WELL WATER;

COMMUNITY RESOURCE MANAGEMENT; MAINTENANCE; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; RURAL AREA; WATER MANAGEMENT; WATER SUPPLY;

AFRICA SOUTH OF THE SAHARA; ARTICLE; COMMUNITY CARE; ENVIRONMENTAL SUSTAINABILITY; HANDPUMP; LIBERIA; PUBLIC HEALTH; PUMP; SIERRA LEONE; UGANDA; WATER SUPPLY; ENVIRONMENT; ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION; FEMALE; HUMAN; RISK FACTOR; RURAL POPULATION; STATISTICAL MODEL; WATER QUALITY;

LIBERIA [WEST AFRICA]; SIERRA LEONE; SUB-SAHARAN AFRICA; UGANDA;

AFRICA SOUTH OF THE SAHARA; CONSERVATION OF NATURAL RESOURCES; ENVIRONMENT; FEMALE; HUMANS; LIBERIA; LOGISTIC MODELS; RISK FACTORS; RURAL POPULATION; SIERRA LEONE; UGANDA; WATER QUALITY; WATER SUPPLY;

EID: 84887884114     PISSN: 0013936X     EISSN: 15205851     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/es402086n     Document Type: Article

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