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Sustainability and Poverty Alleviation : Confronting Environmental Threats in Sindh, Pakistan

Sánchez-Triana, Ernesto - 2015 - Online-Ausg.

In 2009, more than 40,000 people died prematurely in Sindh, Pakistan because of an illness associated with an environmental health risk. This means that almost one of every five deaths that occurred that year was caused by environmental factors. Loss of natural resources and impacts from natural...

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Energy Subsidy Reform Assessment Framework : Local Environmental Externalities Due to Energy Price Subsidies - A Focus on Air Pollution and Health

Enriquez, Santiago - 2018

-risk functions for major health outcomes of air pollution from the Global Burden of Disease study to estimate the health effects … air pollution follows a recent World Bank report, using a cross-country transfer method of the value of statistical life … generally found to constitute a relatively minor share of the health costs of air pollution …

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Arab Republic of Egypt - Cost of Environmental Degradation : Air and Water Pollution

Larsen, Bjorn - 2019

Quantitative assessments of health impacts from environmental pollution are useful informationfor government and the … effects of ambient air pollution (AAP) in Greater Cairo, and inadequate household drinking water, sanitation, and hygiene … as a result of ambient PM2.5 air pollution in Greater Cairo, and inadequate water, sanitation, and hygiene in all of …

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Better Use of Capital to Deliver Sustainable Water Supply and Sanitation Services : Practical Examples and Suggested Next Steps

Kingdom, Bill - 2018

The costs of meeting the SDG WASH targets will be several times higher than investment levels during the MDG era (2000-15). The immense scale of the financing gap calls for innovative solutions. In addition to mobilizing more funding another approach is to deliver the needed infrastructure more...

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City-Wide Inclusive Water Supply : Refocusing on Off-Grid Solutions for Addressing Sustainable Development Goal 6.1

Misra, Smita - 2019

The objective of this report is to better understand the challenges of meeting Sustainable Development Goal 6.1 from the perspective of off-grid services currently being used by a large and increasing proportion of the urban population. For this assessment, two key distinct areas with high...

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Citywide Inclusive Water Supply : Adopting Off-Grid Solutions to Achieve the SDGs

Misra, Smita - 2019

Today about 676 million urban residents, many of them poor, do not have access to the Joint Monitoring Programme (JMP) definition of "safely managed" water supplies. They receive an off-grid water supply service that is not safely managed, accessible, or affordable, and thus not compliant with...

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Sustainability of Demand Responsive Approaches to Rural Water Supply : The Case of Kerala

Andres, Luis - 2017

This paper presents the findings of an impact evaluation to assess the performance and sustainability of the demand responsive community-based approach toward rural water supply in the state of Kerala, India. To achieve the study's objectives, conceptual definitions of the "performance" and...

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Easing the Transition to Commercial Finance for Sustainable Water and Sanitation

Goksu, Amanda - 2017

Providing sustainable water supply and sanitation (WSS) services in developing countries remains an immense, and increasingly urgent, challenge. Chapter two sets out how the sector is currently funded and why business as usual is insufficient for meeting WSS-related goals, covering the size of...

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Multi-hazard groundwater risks to the drinking water supply in Bangladesh : challenges to achieving the Sustainable Development Goals

Shamsudduha, Mohammad; Joseph, George; Haque, Sabrina S.; … - 2019

Groundwater currently provides 98 percent of all the drinking water supply in Bangladesh. Groundwater is found throughout Bangladesh but its quality (that is, arsenic and salinity contamination) and quantity (that is, water storage depletion) vary across hydrological environments, posing unique...

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An assessment of water, sanitation and hygiene access in Bangladesh’s community health clinics

Joseph, George; Alam, Bushra Binte; Shrestha, Anne; … - 2019

Adequate water, sanitation and hygiene (WASH) in health care facilities plays a critical role in ensuring improved health care utilization and reducing disease burden due to reinfection. WASH in health facilities is now gaining momentum with the new SDG targets that governments have vowed to...

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