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Ian A. Wright, Anna Christie and Amy-Marie Gilpin
This study investigated the drinking water quality of house water tanks that harvested roof runoff in a rural area surrounding a large copper and gold mine in Central Western New South Wales (NSW). Water was sampled from (1) the tops of water tanks, (2) ...
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Sajeeve Latif, Mohammad A. Alim, Ataur Rahman and Md Mahmudul Haque
The supply of safe drinking water to rural communities has always been challenging, unlike in most large cities where government authorities have constructed central water supply systems. In many rural areas, primary water sources such as surface water a...
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Fernanda Santos Mota de Jesus, Antonio Miguel Vieira Monteiro and Javier Tomasella
Access to drinking water is recognized as a human right, meaning that it is necessary to guarantee its universal and equitable access. Since analyzing only the average access rates to drinking water may obscure inequalities, studies have adapted socioeco...
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Mlamuleli Tshuma, Johannes A. Belle and Alice Ncube
Communities around the world living in either urban or rural areas continue to experience serious WASH problems during flood episodes. Communities and individual households are affected differently depending on their coping capacities and their resource ...
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Cecilia Ionela Taban, Ana Maria Benedek, Mihaela Stoia, Maria Denisa Cocîrlea and Simona Oancea
From a public health perspective, the monitoring of water quality intended for human consumption belongs to the operational and audit management of the supply zones. Our study explores the spatial and temporal patterns of the parameters of drinking water...
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Feleke K. Sishu, Seifu A. Tilahun, Petra Schmitter and Tammo S. Steenhuis
Nitrate is globally the most widespread and widely studied groundwater contaminant. However, few studies have been conducted in sub-Saharan Africa, where the leaching potential is enhanced during the rainy monsoon phase. The few monitoring studies found ...
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Carolina Rodríguez, Bárbara García, Caterin Pinto, Rafael Sánchez, Jennyfer Serrano and Eduardo Leiva
Water scarcity is a problem of global relevance that is affecting more and more people in the world. Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC) have around 35% of the world?s renewable water resources. However, the management of water resources and inequality...
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Sankar S Vishnu, George Prince, Thomas Mohan
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Water quality plays an important role in maintaining plant and animal life. Lack of good quality drinking water and water for sanitation cause health problems. Water quality characteristics arise from a group of physical, chemical and biological factors....
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Pedro Martínez-Santos, Miguel Martín-Loeches, Silvia Díaz-Alcaide and Kerstin Danert
Water access remains a challenge in rural areas of low-income countries. Manual drilling technologies have the potential to enhance water access by providing a low cost drinking water alternative for communities in low and middle income countries. This p...
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Will Ingram and Fayyaz Ali Memon
Water collection from piped water distribution systems (PWSs) in rural communities in sub-Saharan Africa is not understood in much detail. Here, distances travelled to distribution points (DPs), volumes collected, times of day of collection, and the rela...
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