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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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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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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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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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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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Joshua N. Edokpayi, Elizabeth T. Rogawski, David M. Kahler, Courtney L. Hill, Catherine Reynolds, Emanuel Nyathi, James A. Smith, John O. Odiyo, Amidou Samie, Pascal Bessong and Rebecca Dillingham
Consumption of microbial-contaminated water can result in diarrheal illnesses and enteropathy with the heaviest impact upon children below the age of five. We aimed to provide a comprehensive analysis of water quality in a low-resource setting in Limpopo...
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Isabel Seifert-Dähnn, Ingrid Nesheim, Sambita Gosh, Rutuja Dhawde, Appasaheb Ghadge and Aina C. Wennberg
The majority of people in rural villages in Maharashtra, India, have access to improved drinking water sources. Nevertheless, the water quality at the point of consumption often does not satisfy the drinking water standard. In this study, we assess chang...
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Chung-Mo Lee, Se-Yeong Hamm, Hang-Tak Jeon, MoonSu Kim, Hyun-Koo Kim, Kangjoo Kim
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According to a 2015 study conducted by the Ministry of Environment of Korea, municipal water is supplied to 96.1% of the total Korean population, but 3.9% of the total population (~2.14 million people) in rural myeon or villages, drink groundwater from o...
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Charles Florez, Young Ho Park, Delia Valles-Rosales, Antonio Lara, Emilio Rivera
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Uranium contamination of groundwater increasingly concerns rural residents depending on home wells for their drinking water in communities where uranium is a source of contamination. Established technologies to clean up contaminated aquifers are ineffect...
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Sunset S. Msibi, Gerrit Kornelius
Biogas is a clean and renewable form of energy accessible to low-income households through anaerobic digestion of readily available organic waste. The objectives of this desktop study were to investigate the feasibility of biogas use for substitution of ...
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