The use of water harvesting systems in arid lands is seen to offer a potential for making lands productive that are now largely unusable due to lack... Read more...
Lemon juice was studied as a natural biocide for disinfecting drinking water and inhibiting Vibrio cholerae. Read more...
Between 1 January and 31 July 1992 a cholera epidemic caused 548 reported cases in Riohacha (population 68,000), Colombia. Read more...
The performance of a small-scale water disinfection system which was installed in a hospital in Mexico City in August 1989 was evaluated. Read more...
A key lesson from history is that most irrigation-based civilizations fail. As we enter the third millennium A.D. Read more...
Discusses the ways in which Islamic teachings and the views of Muslim physicians and scholars can be used to identify specific actions to protect the... Read more...
A tube well near Koudougou in Burkina Faso was accidentally polluted. Several causes of the faecal pollution are discussed. Read more...
The health impact of using biogas digesters in China is discussed. Read more...
Position paper by EUREAU, the European Union of National Association of Water Suppliers, on the implications of the revisions in the 1993 WHO... Read more...
The addition of cystine to H2S strips for bacteriological water tests was found to reduce the time required for assessing contamination and to... Read more...
This paper reviews a general strategy for selecting water sources following a disaster and considers in detail simple water treatment options. These... Read more...