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Breaking the cost barrier to household water service
Author(s) -
Lowry Emmett F.
Publication year - 1980
Publication title -
journal ‐ american water works association
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.466
H-Index - 74
eISSN - 1551-8833
pISSN - 0003-150X
DOI - 10.1002/j.1551-8833.1980.tb04611.x
Subject(s) - service (business) , task (project management) , business , rural area , low income , natural resource economics , environmental planning , economics , engineering , geography , marketing , systems engineering , socioeconomics , medicine , pathology
Providing economically feasible household‐connected water systems to the rural, low income areas of a developing nation is a task of almost overwhelming magnitude. The Barangay Water Program in the Philippines, however, is on the way to accomplishing just that. A check of early system installation practices uncovered some surprising facts and ultimately led to several economically viable alternatives to conventional system design.