Development of an objective water security index and assessment of its association with quality of life in urban areas of developing countries

• Main Authors: Sadhana Shrestha (Author), Yoko Aihara (Author), Arun P. Bhattarai (Author), Niranjan Bista (Author), Naoki Kondo (Author), Kazama Futaba (Author), Kei Nishida (Author), Junko Shindo (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: Elsevier, 2018-12-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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A composite metric assessing water security's physical dimension at the micro/ community level is lacking but is essential for setting priorities for program and policy implementations. We prepared an objective index (OI) of water security to measure the physical dimension using a model centere...