Rainwater harvesting is an ancient practice currently used for flood and drought risk
mitigation. It is a well-known solution with different levels of advanced technology associated …

Increasing salt intake has substantial negative impacts on human health and well-being.
This article focused on the construction of Driver-Pressure-State-Impact-Response (DPSIR) …

Water systems need to become more locally robust and sustainable in view of increased
population demands and supply uncertainties. Decentralized treatment is often assumed to …

Chemical contamination of drinking water (including salinity) puts more than one billion
people at risk of adverse health effects globally. Resource-constrained communities are the …

Abstract According to the United Nations' report, billions of people, particularly those living in
regional areas (places that lay behind major cities), are still lacking access to clean drinking …

In addition to surface water and groundwater, rainwater is used as an important drinking
water source in many parts of the world, especially in areas with serious water pollution or …

Background Sodium (Na+) in saline water may increase blood pressure (BP), but potassium
(K+), calcium (Ca2+), and magnesium (Mg2+) may lower BP. We assessed the association …

Drinking water sources used by largely rural and indigenous communities around Lake
Poopó in the Bolivian Altiplano are impacted by drought and a combination of natural and …

Background Drinking-water salinity has been associated with high blood pressure (BP)
among communities in south-west coastal Bangladesh. We evaluated whether access to …

Salinity is described as the mass in grams of the dissolved inorganic matter in 1 kg of water
(Stumm and Morgan 1996). It is hence asserted as S‰–in parts per thousand. Seawater has …