Clean Water and Sanitation

Prioritising clean water and sanitation.

Every minute, 1·1 million litres of human excrement joins the river Ganges. It is a staggering statistic but hardly surprising since some 627 million Indians practice open defecation, roughly half the country’s population, and more than half of the estimated 1 billion people around the world who defecate openly. Most of these people live in ten countries in Asia and sub-Saharan Africa. Indonesi...

Clean water, sanitation and diarrhoea in Indonesia: Effects of household and community factors.

Diarrhoea is an important health issue in low- and middle-income countries, including Indonesia. We applied a multilevel regression analysis on the Indonesian Demographic and Health Survey to examine the effects of drinking water and sanitation facilities at the household and community level on diarrhoea prevalence among children under five (n = 33,339). The role of the circumstances was explor...

Water, Sanitation, and Public Health

Copyright © 2013 Niyi Awofeso et al. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. ". . .We must also consider the qualities of the waters, for as they differ from one another in taste and weight, so also do they differ much in ...

Providing clean water, keeping water clean: an integrated approach.

Millions of people, most of whom are children in developing countries, die of basic hygiene-related diseases every year. Interventions in hygiene, sanitation and water supply have been shown to control disease burden. Universal access to improved water sources and basic sanitation remains elusive but is an important long-term goal. Studies have shown that improving the microbiological quality o...

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