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Does service quality matter in measuring the performance of water utilities?

✍ Scribed by Andrés J. Picazo-Tadeo; Francisco J. Sáez-Fernández; Francisco González-Gómez

Publisher
Elsevier Science
Year
2008
Tongue
English
Weight
239 KB
Volume
16
Category
Article
ISSN
0957-1787

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