Drinking Water Quality

Lab test proves Karak water unfit for drinking

KARAK: The laboratory test has found the drinking water of Karak city and some parts of Takht-i-Nusrati tehsil to be unfit for human consumption.

Publication Date:

10/06/2014

Source: Dawn (Pakistan)

Tags:

Pakistan, South Asia, Drinking Water, Drinking Water Quality, Peshawar, Water Supply

Health

Metabolized-water breeding diseases in urban India: socio-spatiality of water problems and health burden in Ahmedabad

Studies on urban metabolism have provided important insights in the material and socio political issues associated with the flow. However, there is dearth of studies that reveal how infrastructure as a hybrid of social and material construct facilitates disease emergence.

Publication Date:

01/06/2014

Author(s): V. S. Saravanan, Dileep Mavalankar, Suhas P. Kulkarni, Sven Nussbaum, Martin Weigelt

Source: Center for Development Research

Tags:

Waterborne diseases, Ahmedabad (T), India, Health Effects, Water Pollution, Drinking Water Quality, Diseases, Malaria, Gastroenteritis, Jaundice

Water Supply

Inventor battles unsafe drinking water in Africa

Ken Puzey can't forget the cries of a young Haitian girl at a medical clinic where he was volunteering last April.

Publication Date:

05/05/2014

Source: USA Today (US)

Tags:

Water Supply, Drinking Water Quality, Health Effects, Africa, Waterborne diseases, Diarrhoea, Cholera, Measles, Sanitation, Kenya, Health

Natural Disasters

Action plan 2014-2015 on disaster management (West Bengal)

Publication Date:

01/04/2014

Source: Public Health Engineering Department, West Bengal

Tags:

Disaster Management, West Bengal, Droughts, Floods, Drinking Water Quality, Sanitation, Tubewells

Water Pollution

Concept note on geogenic contamination of ground water in India with a special note on nitrate

The report ‘A Concept Note on Geogenic Contamination of Ground Water In India with a Special note on Nitrate’ intends to serve as a national compilation of all relevant information on major geogenic contaminants reported in India.

Publication Date:

01/02/2014

Source: Central Ground Water Board

Tags:

Groundwater, India, Drinking Water Quality, Water Quality, Drinking Water Standards, Arsenic, Health Effects, Fluoride, Salinity, Iron, Uranium

Health

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.