Research

Arsenic: MIT scientists pinpoint origin of contamination in drinking water in Bangladesh

16 Dec 09

Man-made ponds may be responsible for widespread arsenic contamination of ground water affecting millions of people in Bangladesh, a new MIT study says.

Cholera: increased precipitation patterns influence outbreaks in Lusaka, Zambia

16 Dec 09

Scientists from Nigata University, Japan, have found that increased precipitation patterns are contributing to cholera outbreaks in Lusaka, Zambia. The same link was found between insufficient coverage of drainage network sand elevated the risk of cholera outbreaks.

Health impact: Gates Foundation awards US$ 10.9 million to evaluate sanitation interventions

12 Nov 09

Researchers at the University of California, Berkeley, have received a five-year, US$ 10.9 million grant from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation to evaluate several interventions to combat diarrhoeal disease in developing countries.

On-site sanitation: peer pressure builds more latrines than financial assistance in Orissa

28 Oct 09

Government subsidies persuade some people to change habits, but social shame works even better, suggests a recent ground breaking study of efforts to reduce elevated childhood death and disease rates blamed on the microbial pathogens that cause diarrhoea in rural India.

Small water enterprises: data gaps in evidence-based research in developing countries

12 Oct 09

A review of the current literature on small water enterprises (SWEs) found that there were no rigorous, evidence-based, peer-reviewed scientific studies proving their effectiveness in providing potable water.

Hygiene promotion: the role of media exposure, poverty and infrastructure on handwashing in Kenya

12 Oct 09

Structural constraints can limit hygiene practices in the very disadvantaged sections of a population, thus jeopardizing the potential success of hygiene promotion campaigns in those most at risk of disease.

Health impact: water, sanitation and hygiene interventions to combat childhood diarrhoea

12 Oct 09

The notion that water quality treatment in the household and hygiene interventions are necessarily the most efficacious and sustainable interventions for promoting reduction of diarrhoea is challenged by the results of a synthetic review of impact evaluations examining effectiveness of water, sanitation and hygiene interventions in reducing childhood diarrhoea.

Health impact: deaths associated with incomplete water and sanitation provision in African refugee camps

07 Sep 09

In the period from 2005 to 2007, 1,400 deaths were estimated to be directly attributable to incomplete water and sanitation alone in refugee camps in Ethiopia, Kenya and Tanzania.

Gender: effect of women’s perceptions and household practices on children’s waterborne illness in Lebanon

04 Aug 09

Female children, who are generally more involved in household activities than male children, are at higher risk of suffering from diarrhoea. The prevalence of diarrhoea is 5%. This is one of the findings from a recent study in Bebnine, an underserved town in Lebanon.

Health impact: purchase of drinking water from street vendors leads to higher child mortality in Indonesian slums

04 Aug 09

Purchase of inexpensive drinking water in urban slums of Indonesia was common and associated with greater child malnutrition, diarrhoea, and infant and under-five child mortality in the family, is reported in a recent study.

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