Valuing water, valuing livelihoods
Subtitle: guidance on social cost-benefit analysis of drinking-water interventions, with special reference to small community water supplies
By: edited by John Cameron ... [et al.].
Contributors: World Health Organization
Publisher: New York; IWA Publishing; World Health Organization
Published: 2011
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 248
ISBN-13: 9781843393108; 9789241564281
Subjects: Water; Drinking water; Water-supply; Cost-Benefit Analysis; Sanitation; Water Supply; Standards
Description: "This publication addresses the broader issues of social cost-benefit analysis performed on options to invest in drinking-water supplies, with a focus on small community suppliers".--Back cover.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.

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Table of contents: title: The practice of economic assessment of small-scale drinking-water interventions / John Cameron and Paul Jagals; title: Economic assessments of improvements in drinking-water supply - the global evidence / Chris Edwards and John Cameron; title: Current situation in access to drinking-water / Katherine Pond and Stephen Pedley; title: Defining the current situation - epidemiology / Paul R Hunter and Helen Risebro; title: Defining the current situation - observing livelihoods / John Cameron; title: Interventions for water provision / Stephen Pedley, Katherine Pond and Eadaoin Joyce; title: Estimating the costs of small-scale water-supply interventions/ Paul Jagals and Luuk Rietveld; title: Estimating health impacts of interventions with a focus on small-scale drinking-water interventions / Helen Risebro and Paul R. Hunter; title: Cost-effectiveness analysis in practice / Chris Edwards; title: Social cost-benefit analysis - principles / John Cameron; title: Social cost-benefit analysis - summarizing the available global evidence on drinking-water interventions / Chris Edwards.