Groundwater data management by water service providers in peri-urban areas of Lusaka

Water (Switzerland)

Volumn 8, Issue 4, 2016, Pages

  Nussbaumer, David ^a   Sutton, Ian ^b   Parker, Alison ^b  

^a CRANFIELD UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b Ian Sutton Ltd   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Capacity building; Data management; Groundwater

Indexed keywords

GROUNDWATER; WATER LEVELS; WATER MANAGEMENT; WATERWORKS;

CAPACITY BUILDING; GROUNDWATER MANAGEMENT; HYDROGEOLOGICAL INFORMATIONS; ON-GOING MONITORING; PERI-URBAN AREAS; SEMI STRUCTURED INTERVIEWS; WATER SERVICE; WATER-LEVEL DATA;

INFORMATION MANAGEMENT;

CAPACITY BUILDING; DATA MANAGEMENT; GROUNDWATER RESOURCE; HYDROGEOLOGY; PERIURBAN AREA; QUESTIONNAIRE SURVEY; WATER INDUSTRY; WATER LEVEL; WATER MANAGEMENT;

LUSAKA [LUSAKA (PRV)]; LUSAKA [ZAMBIA]; ZAMBIA;

EID: 84965131711     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20734441     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/w8040135     Document Type: Article

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