Household water use, poverty and seasonality: Wealth effects, labour constraints, and minimal consumption in Ethiopia

Water Resources and Rural Development

Volumn 3, Issue , 2014, Pages 27-47

  Tucker, Josephine ^a   MacDonald, Alan ^b   Coulter, Lorraine ^c   Calow, Roger C ^a  

^a OVERSEAS DEVELOPMENT INSTITUTE   (United Kingdom)

^b BRITISH GEOLOGICAL SURVEY   (United Kingdom)

^c Food Economy Group   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Collection time; Ethiopia; Seasonality; Water Economy for Livelihoods (WELS); Water use

Indexed keywords

DRINKING WATER; INFRASTRUCTURE; POVERTY; RAINFALL; SEASONALITY; WATER USE;

ETHIOPIA; OROMIA;

EID: 84928104279     PISSN: 22126082     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.wrr.2014.04.001     Document Type: Article

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