Drinking Water Quality

A comparative risk assessment of burden of disease and injury attributable to 67 risk factors and risk factor clusters in 21 regions, 1990—2010: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2010

Quantification of the disease burden caused by different risks informs prevention by providing an account of health loss different to that provided by a disease-by-disease analysis. No complete revision of global disease burden caused by risk factors has been done since a comparative risk assessment in 2000, and no previous analysis has assessed changes in burden attributable to risk factors over time.

Publication Date:

15/12/2012

Author(s): Stephen S Lim, Theo Vos, Abraham D Flaxman & et al

Source: Lancet

Vol:

380

pp:

2224-2260

Tags:

Diseases, Waterborne diseases, Drinking Water Quality, Sanitation, Child Health, Nutritional Diseases, Alcoholism, Smoking, Health Effects, Poverty, Non Communicable Diseases, Africa, Asia, Europe

Water Pollution

Delhi's Piped Water Unsafe For Drinking, According To Report

A report by Bureau of Indian Standards claims that 11 out of 11 samples taken by them from Delhi and tested in a lab have failed on all 19 parameters of the test. Testing of water samples was conducted to check organoleptic and physical parameters and know the chemical and toxic substances and bacteriological quality besides virological and biological parameters. Arvind Kejriwal is calling it fallacious and politically motivated. (00:01 to 29:00 mins)

Tags:

Water Pollution, Groundwater, Drinking Water Quality, Drinking Water, Drinking Water Standards, Centre for Science and Environment (CSE), Delhi

Water Management

URBAN REALITY EP 52: DELHI WATER CRISIS

As summer peaks and rationing of water begins, Delhi colonies and slums are turning into regular battlefields. Are we going to let one more summer pass and hope the problem will go away? Or are we going to wake up before water wars take over our lives. We discuss with an expert panel on Urban Reality.