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Water Metering In Rural, Piped, Community-Managed Water Systems In The Developing World, Simona Platukyte
Water Metering In Rural, Piped, Community-Managed Water Systems In The Developing World, Simona Platukyte
USF Tampa Graduate Theses and Dissertations
In the early 1990s, the United Nations (UN) recognized water as a finite resource to the entire ecosystem with an economic value that should be developed and managed based on the participatory approach using the Integrated Water Resource Management (IWRM) strategy. Many studies on water management practices have thus emerged in the developing world. Of particular interest to this work is the management of water through metering, price-setting, and rule enforcement in the rural setting in piped, community-owned water systems. There is very little published information regarding metering, enforcement experiments, and experiences in these systems. This is because metering and …