Research
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.
Schistosomiasis: no funding, more worms in Mali
16 Jun 09
Since a donor-funded national schistosomiasis control programme in Mali finished in 1992, the organ-destroying worm disease that affects about 200 million people worldwide rebounded within 12 years, according to a recently published medical study.
Health impact: estimating the effects of poor reliability of drinking water interventions in developing countries
02 Jun 09
Recent evidence suggests that many improved drinking water supplies suffer from poor reliability. This study investigates what impact poor reliability may have on achieving health improvement targets.
Cost-benefit analysis: comparisons of investments in improved water supply and cholera vaccination programmes
15 May 09
Researchers have, for the first time, conducted a cost–benefit comparison of improved water supply investments and cholera vaccination programmes.. Generally speaking, a combination of water supply intervention and targeted vaccination proved most cost-effective. However, when budgets are limited and when working in crowded slums, vaccination alone may be more practical.
Performance assessment: urban water supply and sanitation in Gujarat and Maharashtra, India
11 May 09
CEPT University has received a US$ 9.84 million grant from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation to develop a Performance Assessment System (PAS) for urban water and sanitation services in 400 urban areas of Gujarat and Maharashtra states in India.
Learning for the water sector: call for papers in KM4D Journal
29 Apr 09
The December 2009 issue of the Knowledge Management for Development Journal (KM4D Journal) will focus on the effective (and potential) contribution of approaches to learning, collaboration and knowledge management (KM) to the water, sanitation and hygiene (WASH) sector, and the integrated water resource management (IWRM) sector.
Free access to environment research for developing countries
23 Apr 09
Almost fifty UN-HABITAT Governing Council delegates attended a briefing on how to get free access to environmental research through the On-line Access to Research on the Environment (OARE) initiative.
Hygiene behaviour: an eleven country review of handwashing with soap
02 Apr 09
Handwashing with soap (HWWS) may be one of the most cost-effective means of preventing infection in developing countries. However, a recent study from 11 countries found that on average, only 17% of child caretakers wash hands with soap after the toilet.
Ecological sanitation: using faecal pollution indicators to estimate pathogen die off conditions
09 Mar 09
As the introduction of dehydrating toilets progresses, the safety of handling and reuse of their biosolids remains a question. This study investigated the storage conditions of selected faecal indicators in four urine diverting dehydrating toilet units in Kathmandu Valley, Nepal.
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