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Showing 1 to 20 of 109 for “"Access to water"”.
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Equitable access to water at Alfred Duma Local Municipality
Water plays a crucial role in the life of the society, even though the factors such as pollution, population growth and poor allocation of resources has placed severe pressures on sufficient and equitable water supply. Equitable access to water is part of the Sustainable Development Goals where it …
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The Impact of Internet GIS on Access to Water Quality Information
<p>Empowering citizens to comprehend complex environmental issues affecting their daily lives is essential to sustaining a healthy and informed public. The work of many environmental nongovernmental organizations (ENGOs) and institutions of higher education (IHEs) center around helping their …
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Closing the gap in access to water and sanitation in refugee settlements by financing innovative technologies
… (UNHCR) mandate. UNHCR provides necessities to refugees; however, budget constraints continue to result in unmet water and sanitation standards and low access to energy and fertilizer resources in camps and settlements. Innovative sanitation technologies that meet multiple needs (e.g., …
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The geography of inequality in Cape Town: a case study of access to water in Khayelitsha
… Africa states that: “Everyone has the right to have access to sufficient food and water …” This section is preceded by section 26 (1) which states that: “Everyone has the right to have access to adequate housing.” Violation of these fundamental human rights in isolation may apply to a vast …
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Access to Water: Advancement of Multidimensional, Multiscalar, and Participatory Methods of Measurement in the Global South
This project deploys a modified Water Poverty Index (WPI) in villages reconstructed after the 2004 tsunami in southeastern India. While previous measurements of access to water have advanced understandings of waterscape complexities, this modified WPI improves past efforts and deconstructs some of …
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Property Rights Or Property Wrong: Do Property Rights Matter In Household Access To Irrigation Water? Evidence From Mid-hills, Nepal
… interventions, particularly households’ level of access to irrigation water have rarely been explored. Furthermore, previous empirical studies on irrigation performance have been overtly objective and technical with little regard to farmers’ needs and concerns. The premise of this is that …
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Women’s education and work in China: the menstrual cycle and the power of water
… the joint impact of menstrual cycle and poor access to water on women’s education and labour market outcomes. The research context is chosen to be rural China. Two parallel hypotheses that are tested in this study are as follows: (1) Girls have less probability of school enrolment and shorter …
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Suffering for water: infrastructure, household access and its fluid negotiations in peri-urban Tamale, Ghana
Analysis of access to water in the global South tends to disproportionately focus on the presence of water infrastructure such as the piped network to estimate the proportion of population that have access to water. While interest in access to water has advanced considerably, less research has …
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A Importância do uso de cisternas no Assentamento Oziel Pereira – Remigio PB.
… in semiarid region, where tanks, control access to water and farming family in the settlement Oziel municipality of Remigio Pereira PB. The semi-arid region characterized by spatio-temporal variability of rainfall. Periodic droughts become vulnerable water systems, with strong negative …
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Water for all : an analysis of a human rights based approach to water access
… and qualitative study was undertaken to determine whether a human rights based approach would ensure each person's access to a water supply sufficient to meet her basic needs. A human right to water shows promise as a strategy for ensuring universal access to water if a broad, …
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Participation to improve co-governance? a case study of how early childhood development centres access water and energy in Khayelitsha.
Co-governance is achieved when citizens are able to engage in decision-making processes that lead to improved outcomes. The study interrogates the extent to which Early Childhood Development (ECD) centres in Khayelitsha use participatory processes to support co-governance in relation to their water …
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Three essays on resource and development economics in Sub-Saharan Africa: evidence from Senegal
… contribution of basic infrastructure resources to economic development in Senegal. In addition to the introduction and conclusion, three distinct papers make the backbone of the thesis, the first two being impact evaluation studies. The first paper combines difference-and-difference and …
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Integrating water resources management : analysis of the St. Thomas, U.S. Virgin Islands, water market
The purpose of this thesis is to contribute to the understanding of the water resources management of the St. Thomas water market. By applying the framework for Integrated Water Resources Management, the actual water resources situation in the island was analyzed. This framework requires meeting …
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Investigating the potential for utilising a water equity metric to benchmark differential access in Global South cities: a case study of Cape Town
… wake of the day-zero drought the City of Cape Town (CCT or the City) has made the commitment to become water sensitive in its Water Strategy (CCT, 2019). According to the United Nations SDG 6.1, universal access to water has to take priority in any form of water policy. This is reflected in the …
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Exploring the development challenges facing rural women in Matabeleland South, Zimbabwe
The objectives of the study are to explore how women assess their situation in Matabeleland South with regard to their socio-economic realities; to find out the individual and community circumstances that these rural women in the drought prone region find themselves in; to explore the most …
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Identifying socio-cultural determinants to access : implications for e-governance in the water & sanitation sector
This study identifies socio-cultural determinants to both access to technology, as well as access to water and sanitation services, to build an understanding of how technology use and service delivery interact to either restrict or empower groups to communicate their water and sanitation needs …
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Crop Water Deficits and their Season-ahead Climate Determinants Across the United States
<p>The agricultural sector in the United States provides an essential food and revenue source and it faces severe challenges due to increasing climate variability, which reduces reliable access to water needed for the crops. Unreliable access to water and the potential for drought result in major …
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Gender, Power and Local Water Governance in Rural Uganda
… inequality is one of the biggest challenges to equitable and sustainable natural resource and water governance in developing communities. This thesis investigates the gendered politics of access to water and participation in water governance, using a case study of Makondo Parish in rural …
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Ecology and growth of Tamias palmeri and testing of a protocol to monitor habitat relationships
… and relative abundance of T. palmeri are related to principle component scores of habitat variables using logistic regression and multiple linear regression, respectively. Relative abundance of Tamias palmeri estimated with live capture-recapture was positively correlated with shrub cover and …
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