Sewer overflow (SO), which has attracted global attention, poses serious threat to public
health and ecosystem. SO impacts public health via consumption of contaminated drinking …

Public health, economic, and social disruptions caused by the pandemic extended to
essential public services, including water supply. This paper examines how the pandemic …

The surprising spread speed of the COVID-19 pandemic creates an urgent need for
investigating the transmission chain or transmission pattern of COVID-19 beyond the …

Given the dynamic nature of the ongoing pandemic, public knowledge and perceptions
about COVID-19 are evolving. Limited transportation options, inconsistent healthcare …

Food, energy, and water (FEW) are basic needs for well-being and quality of life. Assessing
FEW security allows residents, communities, and policy makers to make informed decisions …

This study utilizes a recently developed framework for the well-being economy to evaluate
the impacts of COVID-19 in the sparsely populated Westfjords region of northwestern …

Objectives: More than 3300 rural Alaska Native homes lack piped water, impeding hand
hygiene. During the COVID-19 pandemic, the Alaska Native Tribal Health Consortium and …

Several rural communities in Alaska lack piped water and sewer services (“unserved”),
leading to residents self-hauling drinking water and manually disposing of waste. Being time …

Country-level sanitation access is monitored globally by the Joint Monitoring Programme
(JMP). However, recent reports on sanitation access in high-income countries indicate that …

Reliance on imported diesel fuel, with high transportation costs, has made power and water
treatment expensive in remote diesel microgrids in the Arctic. Past attempts at implementing …