Examining the influence of urban definition when assessing relative safety of drinking-water in Nigeria

Science of the Total Environment

Volumn 490, Issue , 2014, Pages 301-312

  Christenson, Elizabeth ^a   Bain, Robert ^a   Wright, Jim ^b   Aondoakaa, Stephen ^c,d   Hossain, Rifat ^e   Bartram, Jamie ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHAMPTON   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ABUJA   (Nigeria)

^d UNIVERSITY OF NOTTINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

^e WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Drinking water quality; Geographic information systems; Rural; Urban; Water supply

Indexed keywords

CONTAMINATION; GEOGRAPHIC INFORMATION SYSTEMS; GROUNDWATER POLLUTION; POTABLE WATER; RURAL AREAS; SURVEYS; WATER SUPPLY;

GLOBAL STANDARDS; GROUNDWATER SOURCES; PUBLIC HEALTH INITIATIVES; RURAL AND URBAN; SANITARY RISKS; THERMOTOLERANT; URBAN; URBAN AND RURAL;

SAFETY ENGINEERING;

DRINKING WATER; GROUND WATER; WELL WATER;

DRINKING WATER; GIS; RURAL AREA; SAFETY; URBAN AREA; WATER QUALITY; WATER SUPPLY;

ARTICLE; FECAL COLIFORM; GEOGRAPHIC INFORMATION SYSTEM; MICROBIAL CONTAMINATION; NIGERIA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SAFETY; URBAN RURAL DIFFERENCE; WATER CONTAMINATION; WATER QUALITY; WATER SAFETY; WATER STANDARD; CHEMISTRY; HUMAN; MICROBIOLOGY; PUBLIC HEALTH; STANDARDS; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA; URBAN POPULATION; WATER POLLUTION; WATER SUPPLY;

NIGERIA;

DRINKING WATER; HUMANS; NIGERIA; PUBLIC HEALTH; SAFETY; URBAN POPULATION; WATER MICROBIOLOGY; WATER POLLUTION; WATER QUALITY; WATER SUPPLY;

EID: 84901299377     PISSN: 00489697     EISSN: 18791026     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2014.05.010     Document Type: Article

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