Effectiveness of interventions to improve drinking water, sanitation, and handwashing with soap on risk of diarrhoeal disease in children in low-income and middle …

J Wolf, S Hubbard, M Brauer, A Ambelu, BF Arnold… - The Lancet, 2022 - thelancet.com
Background Estimates of the effectiveness of water, sanitation, and hygiene (WASH)
interventions that provide high levels of service on childhood diarrhoea are scarce. We …

Urban growth and water access in sub-Saharan Africa: Progress, challenges, and emerging research directions

S Dos Santos, EA Adams, G Neville, Y Wada… - Science of the Total …, 2017 - Elsevier
For the next decade, the global water crisis remains the risk of highest concern, and ranks
ahead of climate change, extreme weather events, food crises and social instability. Across …

Global water shortage and potable water safety; Today's concern and tomorrow's crisis

M Salehi - Environment International, 2022 - Elsevier
Climate change, severe droughts, population growth, demand increase, and poor
management during the recent decades have further stressed the scarce freshwater …

Sociohydrology: scientific challenges in addressing the sustainable development goals

G Di Baldassarre, M Sivapalan, M Rusca… - Water Resources …, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
Abstract The Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) of the United Nations Agenda 2030
represent an ambitious blueprint to reduce inequalities globally and achieve a sustainable …

COVID-19: urgent actions, critical reflections and future relevance of 'WaSH': lessons for the current and future pandemics

G Howard, J Bartram, C Brocklehurst… - Journal of water and …, 2020 - iwaponline.com
The COVID-19 pandemic placed hygiene at the centre of disease prevention. Yet, access to
the levels of water supply that support good hand hygiene and institutional cleaning, our …

Water quality assessment and evaluation of human health risk of drinking water from source to point of use at Thulamela municipality, Limpopo Province

N Luvhimbi, TG Tshitangano, JT Mabunda… - Scientific Reports, 2022 - nature.com
Water quality has been linked to health outcomes across the world. This study evaluated the
physico-chemical and bacteriological quality of drinking water supplied by the municipality …

Passive in-line chlorination for drinking water disinfection: a critical review

M Lindmark, K Cherukumilli, YS Crider… - … science & technology, 2022 - ACS Publications
The world is not on track to meet Sustainable Development Goal 6.1 to provide universal
access to safely managed drinking water by 2030. Removal of priority microbial …

Urban informal settlements as hotspots of antimicrobial resistance and the need to curb environmental transmission

ML Nadimpalli, SJ Marks, MC Montealegre… - Nature …, 2020 - nature.com
Antimicrobial resistance (AMR) is a growing public health challenge that is expected to
disproportionately burden lower-and middle-income countries (LMICs) in the coming …

[HTML][HTML] Review of drivers and barriers of water and sanitation policies for urban informal settlements in low-income and middle-income countries

SS Sinharoy, R Pittluck, T Clasen - Utilities policy, 2019 - Elsevier
This study examined drivers and barriers of water, sanitation, and hygiene (WASH) policies
in urban informal settlements in low and middle-income countries. We conducted a search of …

[HTML][HTML] Water access in global South cities: The challenges of intermittency and affordability

VA Beard, D Mitlin - World Development, 2021 - Elsevier
The article analyzes water access in cities in the global South. We examine two challenges
to water access from the perspective of households: intermittent services and affordability …