Pit latrines are widely promoted to improve sanitation in low-income settings, but their
pollution and health risks receive cursory attention. The present narrative review presents …

Container-Based Sanitation (CBS) has rapidly progressed from its inception less than a
decade ago to its recent classification as a type of improved sanitation facility by the Joint …

A comprehensive hydrochemical study has been carried out to evaluate the impact of
anthropogenic activities like industrial effluents, open defecation and untreated sewerage …

This study aims to construct a novel framework approach for predicting and mapping nitrate
concentration susceptibility in the coastal multi-aquifers of Bangladesh by coupling the K …

The levels of nitrate in 52 drinking water wells in rural Central Java, Indonesia were
evaluated in April 2014, and the results were used for a health risk assessment for the local …

Groundwater is one of the primary sources for the daily water requirements of the masses,
but it is subjected to contamination due to the pollutants, such as nitrate, percolating through …

Open defecation is practised by over 600 million people in India and there is a strong
political drive to eliminate this through the provision of on-site sanitation in rural areas …

Regular monitoring of drinking water quality is vital to identify contamination of potable water
supplies. Testing for microbial contamination is important to prevent transmission of …

Pit latrines provide essential onsite sanitation services to over a billion people, but there are
concerns about their role in infectious disease transmission, and impacts on groundwater …

In this study, different by-product wastes, ie, fly ash (FA) and rice husk (RH), were analyzed
in various proportions with other materials, ie, activated carbon (AC), activated alumina (AA) …