%0 Book %D 2009 %T Global: Climbing the Water Ladder - Multiple-Use Water Services for Poverty Reduction %A Barbara van Koppen %A Stef Smits %A Patrick Moriarty %A F.W.T Penning de Vries %A M. Mikhail %A E. Boelee %X

Sustained access to water in low- and middle-income countries is crucial for domestic use (drinking, personal hygiene, etc.) and is also an imperative for people's livelihoods, income-generating activities and small-scale enterprise (e.g. livestock, horticulture, irrigation, fisheries, brickmaking, and othes). Overall, this book exposes the detrimental effects and impacts of approaching water services in isolated ways -- where the continued practise of separating community water services between domestic use and livelihoods have done little in alleviating poverty.

Available in English and espagnol (Ascendiendo la escala de agua).

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