Sustainable supply of safe drinking water for underserved households in Kenya: Investigating the viability of decentralized solutions

Water (Switzerland)

Volumn 7, Issue 10, 2015, Pages 5437-5457

  Cherunya, Pauline Chepchirchir ^a   Janezic, Christine ^b   Leuchner, Michael ^a  

^a TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

^b SIEMENS AG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Consistency; Decentralization; Safe water; Safe Water Enterprises (SWE); Small scale systems

Indexed keywords

THERMAL PROCESSING (FOODS); WATER; WATER QUALITY; WATER TREATMENT;

CONSISTENCY; DECENTRALIZATION; DECENTRALIZED MODELS; SAFE DRINKING WATER; SAFE WATER; SMALL-SCALE SYSTEMS; USER PERCEPTIONS; WILLINGNESS TO PAY;

POTABLE WATER;

EID: 84949254839     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20734441     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/w7105437     Document Type: Article

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