Fecal contamination of drinking-water in low-and middle-income countries: a systematic review and meta-analysis

R Bain, R Cronk, J Wright, H Yang, T Slaymaker… - PLoS …, 2014 - journals.plos.org
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 …

Intermittent water supply: prevalence, practice, and microbial water quality

E Kumpel, KL Nelson - Environmental science & technology, 2016 - ACS Publications
Intermittent water supplies (IWS), in which water is provided through pipes for only limited
durations, serve at least 300 million people around the world. However, providing water …

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 …

Drinking water quality and human health risk in Charsadda district, Pakistan

S Khan, M Shahnaz, N Jehan, S Rehman… - Journal of cleaner …, 2013 - Elsevier
Access to safe drinking water is one of the basic human rights and essential for healthy life.
The present study investigated the concentrations of various pollutants in drinking water and …

Intermittent domestic water supply: A critical review and analysis of causal-consequential pathways

SE Galaitsi, R Russell, A Bishara, JL Durant, J Bogle… - Water, 2016 - mdpi.com
Communities in many parts of the world, especially in developing countries, face obstacles
in supplying continuous water to household consumers. Authorities often cite water scarcity …

Photocatalysis and bandgap engineering using ZnO nanocomposites

MA Johar, RA Afzal, AA Alazba… - Advances in Materials …, 2015 - Wiley Online Library
Nanocomposites have a great potential to work as efficient, multifunctional materials for
energy conversion and photoelectrochemical reactions. Nanocomposites may reveal more …

Water distribution system deficiencies and gastrointestinal illness: a systematic review and meta-analysis

A Ercumen, JS Gruber… - Environmental health …, 2014 - ehp.niehs.nih.gov
Background: Water distribution systems are vulnerable to performance deficiencies that can
cause (re) contamination of treated water and plausibly lead to increased risk of …

Trust matters: Why augmenting water supplies via desalination may not overcome perceptual water scarcity

MC Fragkou, J McEvoy - Desalination, 2016 - Elsevier
Historically, water scarcity has been understood to result from unfavorable climatological
and hydrological factors. From this perspective, infrastructural solutions that augment water …

Upgrading a piped water supply from intermittent to continuous delivery and association with waterborne illness: a matched cohort study in urban India

A Ercumen, BF Arnold, E Kumpel, Z Burt, I Ray… - PLoS …, 2015 - journals.plos.org
Background Intermittent delivery of piped water can lead to waterborne illness through
contamination in the pipelines or during household storage, use of unsafe water sources …

Geochemical modeling source provenance, public health exposure, and evaluating potentially harmful elements in groundwater: Statistical and human health risk …

A Rashid, M Ayub, Z Ullah, A Ali, SA Khattak… - International Journal of …, 2022 - mdpi.com
Groundwater contamination by potentially harmful elements (PHEs) originating from the
weathering of granitic and gneissic rock dissolution poses a public health concern …