1. Development and application of a multi-scalar, participant-driven water poverty index in post-tsunami India.
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Juran, Luke, Macdonald, Morgan C., Basu, Nandita B., Hubbard, Shane, Rajagopal, Raj, Rajagopalan, Prema, and Philip, Ligy
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TSUNAMI damage , *METROPOLITAN areas , *WATER shortages - Abstract
This article presents a modified water poverty index that captures several waterscape attributes to better understand complex issues surrounding water. Household surveys (n= 300), water quality tests (n= 375) and qualitative methods were deployed to examine 14 post-tsunami settlements in Nagapattinam and Karaikal Districts (India) through the lens of water. Data were used to develop a contextualized, participant-driven water poverty index to measure water poverty at several scales. Statistical tests revealed significant differences between the two districts (p≤ .0001) and between rural and urban areas within each district (p≤ .0001). Three weight schemes (one dictated entirely by research participants) produced analogous outcomes though predicated on different indicator arrangements. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]
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- 2017
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