Piped-water supplies in rural areas of the Mekong Delta, Vietnam: Water quality and household perceptions

Water (Switzerland)

Volumn 6, Issue 8, 2014, Pages 2175-2194

  Wilbers, Gert Jan ^a   Sebesvari, Zita ^a   Renaud, Fabrice G ^a  

^a UNITED NATIONS UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Drinking water; E. coli; House preference; Pollution; Salinity; Water treatment

Indexed keywords

ESCHERICHIA COLI; POLLUTION; POTABLE WATER; RURAL AREAS; WATER QUALITY; WATER RESOURCES; WATER SUPPLY; WATER TREATMENT;

DECENTRALIZED TREATMENTS; DISTRIBUTION OF WATER; DRINKING WATER SOURCES; E. COLI; MILLENNIUM DEVELOPMENT GOALS; SALINITY; WATER-SUPPLY STATIONS; WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION;

WATER POLLUTION;

COLIFORM BACTERIUM; DRINKING WATER; GUIDELINE; HOUSEHOLD SURVEY; MICROBIOLOGY; MILLENIUM DEVELOPMENT GOAL; PERCEPTION; PIPELINE; PREFERENCE BEHAVIOR; RAINWATER; RURAL AREA; SALINITY; WATER MANAGEMENT; WATER QUALITY; WATER SUPPLY; WATER TREATMENT;

MEKONG DELTA; VIET NAM;

EID: 84906251512     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20734441     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/w6082175     Document Type: Article

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