Managing water pressure for water savings in developing countries
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Emerging Water Quality Problems in Developing Countries
1 Department of Environmental Science, Tezpur University, Tezpur, Assam 784028, India 2 Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi, India 3 Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Faculty of Engineering, University of Ruhuna, Galle, Sri Lanka 4Hanoi Architectural University, Vietnam 5Center for Environmental Risk Research, National Institute for Environmental Studies (NIES), 16-2 Onogawa...
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: Water SA
سال: 2014
ISSN: 0378-4738
DOI: 10.4314/wsa.v40i2.4