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Living Without Water, Asaad Nadim, Nawal El-Messiri Nadim, Sohair Mehanna, John H. Nixon
Living Without Water, Asaad Nadim, Nawal El-Messiri Nadim, Sohair Mehanna, John H. Nixon
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The socio-economic study reported here was conducted in July and August of 1979 as part of the Egyptian Government's Metered Water Service Connection Program for improving and expanding water and wastewater utilities in Greater Cairo. Approximately one quarter of the population of Greater Cairo presently lacks direct access to the city's water supply_system and must obtain its water from public fountains. Households lacking water connections are chiefly in the poorest areas of the city. The current program is thus ·geared to serving residential areas whose inhabitants are on the lower half of the city's income scale. These, however, are the …