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ENCYCLOPEDIA

OF WORLD PROBLEMS

AND HUMAN POTENTIAL

  2. World problems
  3. Prohibitive cost of connection to public utilities

Prohibitive cost of connection to public utilities

  • Prohibitive cost of connection to water services
  • Prohibitive telephone costs
  • Prohibitive cost of connection to telephone network
  • Prohibitive cost of connection to electricity services

Broader

Prohibitive cost of basic services
Presentable
Limited access to society's resources
Presentable
Prohibitive cost of cooperative start-up
Unpresentable
Excessive costs
Unpresentable

Narrower

Overcharging for international telephone calls
Yet to rate

Aggravates

Inadequate sanitation infrastructure
Presentable
Diminishing capital investment in small communities
Presentable
Delay in connection of telecommunications facilities
Unpresentable
Discrimination in access to sanitation services
Yet to rate

Aggravated by

Scattered housing locations
Unpresentable
Prohibitive cost of capital equipment
Unpresentable
Deteriorating physical infrastructure in cities
Unpresentable

Strategy

Developing alternative electricity
Yet to rate

Value

Prohibition
Yet to rate
Costliness
Yet to rate
Connection
Yet to rate

SDG

Sustainable Development Goal #1: No PovertySustainable Development Goal #9: Industry, Innovation and Infrastructure

Metadata

Database
World problems
Type
(E) Emanations of other problems
Biological classification
N/A
Subject
  • Commerce » Purchasing, supplying
  • Government » Public
  • Hydrology » Water
  • Industry » Utilities
  • Social activity » Networks
  • Social activity » Services
  • Technology » Electricity
  • Transportation, telecommunications » Telephone, telex, telefax
Content quality
Unpresentable
 Unpresentable
Language
English
1A4N
J9426
DOCID
12094260
D7NID
138151
Editing link
Official link
https://encyclopedia.uia.org/problem/prohibitive-cost-connection-public-utilities
Last update
Oct 4, 2020