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Poverty and water security: understanding how water affects the poor (pdf 150kb)

This paper stimulates debate and improved understanding of the critical importance of water security in the lives of the world's poor and provides a conceptual framework to help explain the relationship between poverty and water security.

It also proposes constructive steps towards improving water security for the world's poor.

 

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