Multi-criteria assessment of community-based fluoride-removal technologies for rural Ethiopia

Science of the Total Environment

Volumn 488-489, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 532-538

  Osterwalder, Lars ^a   Johnson, C Annette ^a   Yang, Hong ^a,b   Johnston, Richard B ^a  

^a SWISS FEDERAL INSTITUTE OF AQUATIC SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BASEL   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Ethiopia; Fluoride; Multi criteria decision analysis; Rural; Technology; Water treatment

Indexed keywords

GROUNDWATER; RURAL AREAS; TECHNOLOGY; WATER RESOURCES; WATER TREATMENT;

ELEVATED CONCENTRATIONS; ETHIOPIA; ETHIOPIAN RIFT VALLEY; FLUORIDE; MULTI-CRITERIA ASSESSMENT; MULTI-CRITERIA DECISION ANALYSIS; TECHNICAL SOLUTIONS; TECHNOLOGY COMPARISON;

FLUORINE COMPOUNDS;

DRINKING WATER; FLUORIDE; GROUND WATER;

DRINKING WATER; FLUORIDE; MULTICRITERIA ANALYSIS; PLANNING METHOD; STAKEHOLDER; TECHNOLOGICAL DEVELOPMENT; TECHNOLOGY ADOPTION; WATER MANAGEMENT; WATER TREATMENT;

ARTICLE; ETHIOPIA; FLUOROSIS; HEALTH HAZARD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REFERENCE VALUE; RELIABILITY; RURAL AREA; WATER MANAGEMENT;

ETHIOPIA;

ETHIOPIA; FLUORIDE; MULTI-CRITERIA DECISION ANALYSIS; RURAL; TECHNOLOGY; WATER TREATMENT;

DRINKING WATER; ENVIRONMENTAL REMEDIATION; ETHIOPIA; FLUORIDES; GROUNDWATER; RURAL POPULATION; WATER POLLUTANTS, CHEMICAL; WATER PURIFICATION; WATER SUPPLY;

EID: 84901634381     PISSN: 00489697     EISSN: 18791026     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2013.10.072     Document Type: Article

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