Economic good or natural asset? Sustainable livelihoods approaches to water supply | Land Portal

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Date of publication: 
January 2002
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ISBN / Resource ID: 
eldis:A8476

The domestic water sector has focused for many years on benefiting health by improving supply. Can more and better water improve people’s health? Does improved water supply by government and agencies really meet the basic needs of the poor? Or should water be treated as an economic good?

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A. Nicol

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Aims to make policymakers and on-the-ground development managers aware of the latest and best in British development research findings. Offers policy-relevant findings on critical global development issues, drawn from over 40 major UK-based economics and social studies departments and think-tanks, together with a wide range of NGO research departments and consultants.

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