Abstract Water quality is declining due to the rise of urbanization, overpopulation, industrial production, climate change, non-compliance wastewater treatment plants, and agricultural waste . The mushrooming informal settlements along bank Diep River population growth in Dunoon compromises water. Inadequate sanitation disposal practices settlement are a major problem, leading contamination wat...

Informal settlement mapping is essential for planning, as well resource and utility management. Developing efficient ways of determining the properties informal settlements (when, where, who) critical upgrading services planning. Remote sensing data are increasingly used to understand built environments. In this study, we combine two sources data, very-high-resolution imagery time-series Landsa...

The empirical evidence from literature has disclosed that the extensive share of world’s population continues to live in informal settlements due economic, social, and welfare disparities. These possess attributes poor infrastructure utilities services. In reality, excessive housing prices, economic incapacity, insufficient technical abilities among people, they are forced such dilapidated sett...

Majority of world population live in poverty and struggle to fulfil the most basic needs like health, education, access water sanitation. Past studies indicate resources deprivation among residents informal settlements. In Africa, 43% individuals are living destitution urban territories a proportion which compares with 59% people rural areas. Due high rate traders settlements unable financial s...

Inadequate urban sanitation disproportionately impacts the social determinants of women's health in informal settlements or slums. The impacts on women's health include infectious and chronic illnesses, violence, food contamination and malnutrition, economic and educational attainment, and indignity. We used household survey data to report on self-rated health and sociodemographic, housing, and...