Safe access to safe water in low income countries: Water fetching in current times
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Safe access to safe water in low income countries: water fetching in current times.
A substantial portion of the world's population does not have ready access to safe water. Moreover, obtaining water may involve great expense of time and energy for those who have no water sources in or near home. From an historical perspective, with the invention of piped water, fetching water has only recently become largely irrelevant in many locales. In addition, in most instances, wells an...
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عنوان ژورنال: Social Science & Medicine
سال: 2011
ISSN: 0277-9536
DOI: 10.1016/j.socscimed.2011.03.010