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Showing 1 to 20 of 59 for “"Water access"”.
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Connections Between Present-Day Water Access and Historical Redlining
Although challenges in water and sanitation access are often assumed to be issues of low- and middle-income nations, over 400,000 homes in the United States still lack access to complete indoor plumbing. Previous research has demonstrated that the remaining plumbing challenges are more prevalent in …
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A Call For Environmental Justice: Water Access and Alcohol Policies
… Bayview Hunters Point and the development of the water access and alcohol policies.</p>
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Developing GIS analysis techniques for the measurement of safe drinking water access
… methods that are widely used to measure spatial access to services and to inform the planning of public facilities and infrastructures. The development of innovative GIS tools has informed approaches for researching demographic and socioeconomic problems. Nevertheless, GIS methods have not yet …
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Water access issues for expanding urban areas: a case study of Quetta, Pakistan
… and international conflicts will be about water supply since water touches nearly every aspect of life. Water is becoming a scarce commodity everywhere including Balochistan (Pakistan), where environmental challenges are at a peak. Most of the poor (Quetta, Pakistan) pay high prices for …
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Water for all : an analysis of a human rights based approach to water access
… 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, comprehensive human rights theory is ascribed to. In a coherent, comprehensive human …
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Do Water Access Inequalities Matter for Child Mortality? A perspective from low-and-middle-income countries
Although the role of water is well known in child health, whether and how the distribution of water access affects child mortality and its economic transmission channels remain unclear. In particular, child mortality caused by diarrhea received insufficient attention, although diarrhea is the …
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Changing Patterns of Water, Access, and Public Discourse in the Lower Colorado River Valley of Texas, 1970-2015
This mixed-methods study analyzes changes in water, access, and public discourse in the lower Colorado River valley of Texas from 1970 to 2015. The waters of the lower Colorado River have sustained urban populations and agricultural operations for over a century. Yet, recent, rapid urban growth and …
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Tracing hydrosocial change: the social constellations of water access and allocation for oil and gas development in Colorado
Increasing water use for OG development in Colorado suggests a change in the social constellations of water governance. Colorado's water allocation institutions, practices and policies relationally shape and are shaped by water's biophysical movement over space and time through a hydrosocial cycle. …
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THE ASSESSMENT OF THE QUALITY OF WATER RESOURCES IN NORTHERN THAILAND: TOWARDS SAFE DRINKING-WATER ACCESS FOR VULNERABLE POPULATIONS
… was to evaluate the quality of the drinking-water resources in Northern Thailand. To achieve this, several case studies using key water quality parameters, particularly those that may be hazardous to human health when ingested, were presented in this thesis. These water quality parameters are …
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Water and Life. A Cross-Sectional Study on Determinants of Beverage Consumption and Water Access in One Tribal Community
… a cross-sectional survey on drinking habits and water access in one tribal reservation to determine prevalence of SSB consumption and its relationship to identification as Native American. Multivariate logistic regression analysis, after accounting for covariates, identified characteristics which …
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Cape Town crisis: An analysis on drought response measures, the motives behind them, and their implications for equitable water access
… major policy and regulatory changes within its water management strategy in response to a three-year drought (2015-2018). Due to the vulnerability of humanity to climate change, its uncertainty, and the risks that it poses for securing a reliable source of water, it is important to fully …
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WOMEN’S WATER, WOMEN’S WORK: EVALUATING DECENTRALIZED MANAGEMENT OF DEEP BOREHOLE WELLS FOR IMPROVED RURAL WATER ACCESS IN TAWA FALL VILLAGE, SENEGAL
… and growing importance is the availability-and accessibility-of water. Across the Sahel, access to potable water for domestic use, as well as contaminant-free water for agricultural and animal husbandry purposes is of growing concern. This study evaluates Government of Senegal efforts at …
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WOMEN’S WATER, WOMEN’S WORK: EVALUATING DECENTRALIZED MANAGEMENT OF DEEP BOREHOLE WELLS FOR IMPROVED RURAL WATER ACCESS IN TAWA FALL VILLAGE, SENEGAL
… and growing importance is the availability-and accessibility-of water. Across the Sahel, access to potable water for domestic use, as well as contaminant-free water for agricultural and animal husbandry purposes is of growing concern. This study evaluates Government of Senegal efforts at …
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Barriers and enablers to water access and community wellbeing in the Onesi constituency of Namibia: the case of Okalonga B and Onandjandja villages
The scarcity of water and especially the lack of safe drinking water have been accepted as amongst the most serious challenges facing the twenty-first century. The lack of access to water is a global problem that faces between 460 million to more than 1 billion people as a result of an increasing …
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Assessment of realization of fundamental human right to water Umlalazi Municipality, Kwazulu-Natal.
The aim of the study was to examine the municipal water resource governance and fundamental human rights to water in the UMlalazi Local Municipality of the KwaZulu- Natal Province. The study employed the post-positivist paradigm and closed ended questionnaires for collection of data. Stratified …
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The Impact of Borehole Wells and a Hygiene and Sanitation Program on Diarrhea: Evidence from Rural Southwest Uganda
… 2,089 children a day (WHO, 2013). Clean water access, sanitation facilities, and good hygiene behavior are solutions to decreasing child mortality and morbidity caused by fecal contamination. I estimate the impact of borehole wells and a hygiene and sanitation program on diarrhea by …
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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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Empowered women in water management
… that promote equity in all spheres including the water sector. Equality in the water sector is not only limited to water access, but also management of the water. This study investigated the factors that empower women in the water sector as an example of gender equity.
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Exploring the potential contribution of Environmental Impact Assessments for water resilience: a case study of in-situ upgrading of the Monwabisi Park informal settlement, Cape Town, South Africa
Internationally, water resource management is complicated by a myriad of factors. Climate change is just one of such factors that has globally complicated water resource management due to erratic weather patterns, including extreme and prolonged drought. However, there also exist other factors such …
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