Background Access to safe drinking-water is a fundamental requirement for good health and
is also a human right. Global access to safe drinking-water is monitored by WHO and …

Background Access to safe drinking water is essential for health. Monitoring access to
drinking water focuses on water supply type at the source, but there is limited evidence on …

Improvements in point-of-use (POU) drinking water disinfection technologies for remote and
regional communities are urgently needed. Conceptually, UV-C light-emitting diodes (LEDs) …

For many decades, populations in rural and remote developing regions will be unable to
access centralised piped potable water supplies, and indeed, decentralised options may be …

Diarrheal diseases kill 1800 children under the age of five die each day, and nearly half of
these deaths occur in sub-Saharan Africa. Contaminated drinking water and hands are two …

Lack of access to safe drinking water on premises remains widespread in low-and middle-
income countries. Interventions to improve access to safe water at the point of collection are …

Background: Water quality testing is dictated by microbial agents found at the time of
sampling in reference to their acceptable risk levels. Human activities might contaminate …

Packaged water treatment schemes represent a growing model for providing safer water in
low-income settings, yet post-distribution recontamination of treated water may limit this …

La baja calidad microbiológica del agua rural es un problema extendido en los países en
desarrollo; en México su magnitud es incierta. Se determinaron las variaciones espaciales y …

Water pollution is considered a severe environmental problem, especially in developing
countries, with 50% of the 663 million people lacking potable water sources globally …