Water Quality and Willingness to Pay for Safe Drinking Water in Tala Upazila in a Coastal District of Bangladesh

Exposure and Health

Volumn 11, Issue 4, 2019, Pages 297-310

  Dey, Nepal C ^a,b,c   Parvez, Mahmood ^a   Saha, Ratnajit ^a   Islam, Mir Raihanul ^a   Akter, Tahera ^a   Rahman, Mahfuzar ^a   Barua, Milan ^a   Islam, Akramul ^a  

^a RESEARCH AND EVALUATION DIVISION   (Bangladesh)

^b NOAKHALI SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY UNIVERSITY   (Bangladesh)

^c Health Research and Development   (Bangladesh)

Author keywords

Arsenic; Drinking water; Salinity; Willingness to pay

Indexed keywords

ARSENIC; DESIGN METHOD; DRINKING WATER; IRON; LOCAL GOVERNMENT; SALINITY; SANITATION; TARIFF STRUCTURE; WATER PLANNING; WATER QUALITY; WILLINGNESS TO PAY;

BANGLADESH;

EID: 85041582190     PISSN: 24519766     EISSN: 24519685     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s12403-018-0272-3     Document Type: Article

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