safe drinking water access Articles
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Access to safe drinking water and its impact on global economic growth
Introduction Despite a concentrated international effort, significant investment and widespread educational campaigns, access to safe drinking water appears to be in decline. HaloSource, a leading global clean water and antimicrobial technology company, set out to examine the possible reasons for this decline and the potential impact it may have on global economic growth. The paper answers the ...
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Convergence in access to safe water and adequate sanitation: an analysis across countries and time
This short note reports that developing countries have tended to converge in terms of percentage of population having access to safe drinking water and adequate sanitation between 1980 and 1993-1996. It suggests that this represents a good message, but no reason for complacency. Enormous efforts are still needed until all people on earth can enjoy access to safe drinking water and adequate ...
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Access to safe drinking water and human health: empirical evidence from rural Bhutan
Provision of safe drinking water is essential for the promotion of human well-being. This paper makes an attempt to examine the patterns of access to drinking water, identify and analyze the factors that influence households access to safe drinking water sources, and analyze factors determining the extent of households travel to fetch drinking water, and assess the effects of access to safe ...
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Learning from the MDGs: Improved sanitation and drainage in cities
The water MDG was widely acknowledged as the furthest from delivering against its objective, with criticism largely levelled at Target 7.C, which aimed to 'halve, by 2015, the proportion of the population without sustainable access to safe drinking water and basic sanitation'. Across two issues of the journal, 22 papers tackle sanitation globally, alongside specific case studies and issues ...
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Analysis of challenges and opportunities to meaningful Indigenous engagement in sustainable water and wastewater management
Access to safe drinking water and adequate sanitation continue to be significant issues affecting Indigenous populations worldwide. The full participation of Indigenous peoples within water and wastewater policy and decision-making has been hindered by many factors, including capacity, inadequate resources and, overall, a lack of respect or formal recognition of Indigenous rights. This study ...
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Poverty-environment-development nexus
Environmental resources provide life support and livelihood to the poor. Degradation of the environment, whether caused by rich or poor, affects the poor the most. Today we have different levels of societies, viz., tribal and traditional, rural and agrarian and urban, each of which relates to the environment differently. The environment provides basic necessities such as water, fuel, food ...
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Estimated Costs to Utilities for Issuing A Boil Water Advisory
The United States Safe Drinking Water Act (SDWA) has stringent standards in place to ensure the safe distribution of water. However, water quality problems (e.g. water main breaks, elevated turbidity, microbiological non-compliance, etc.) can result in these standards not being met. The consequence of this is often a boil water advisory to inform the public that the water is unsafe to drink. ...
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An exploration of multilevel modeling for estimating access to drinking-water and sanitation
Monitoring progress towards the targets for access to safe drinking-water and sanitation under the Millennium Development Goals (MDG) requires reliable estimates and indicators. We analyzed trends and reviewed current indicators used for those targets. We developed continuous time series for 1990 to 2015 for access to improved drinking-water sources and improved sanitation facilities by country ...
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Monitoring and data for the MDGs
Improving water resources development and management is a critical factor for meeting the MDG’s, not only specifically Target 10 (Halve, by 2015, the proportion of people without sustainable access to safe drinking water and sanitation), but also the broader goals of eradicating extreme poverty and hunger, achieving universal primary education, promoting gender equality and women’s ...
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Determinants of household participation in the management of rural water supply systems: A case from Ethiopia
Access to safe drinking water supply in Ethiopia is among the lowest in sub-Saharan Africa. While both governmental and non-governmental organizations have implemented water supply projects in recent years, many fail shortly after construction due to improper management. In this paper, we examine socio-economic, institutional and exogenous factors affecting household participation in the ...
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The paradox of water accessibility: understanding the temporal and spatial dimensions of access to improved water sources in Rwanda
According to the United Nations, the world has met the Millennium Development Goal target of halving the proportion of people without access to safe drinking water. However, global figures mask massive disparities between regions and countries, and within countries. For instance, only 64% of the people in sub-Saharan Africa have access to improved water sources. Over 40% of all people ...
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The effect of seasonal climate on bottled water distribution in rural Cambodia
The rural population of Cambodia currently has limited access to improved water sources, with monthly access significantly varying between the wet and dry seasons. This poses difficulties for many households across the country, especially in the dry season when stored rainwater – a common source for many – becomes difficult to obtain, necessitating a switch to sources unsafe for ...
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Transforming potential conflict into cooperation potential: the role of international water law
International river basins cover more than half of the land’s surface. With nearly 300 major watercourses shared by two or more states and ever-increasing demand on the world’s diminishing water resources, there may be some justification in the assertion by certain commentators that “water wars” are imminent in the near future. The UN forecasts that more than half of the ...
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Access to potable water and sanitation in Cameroon within the context of Millennium Development Goals (MDGS)
Cameroon has been fully engaged with the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) since their inception in 2000. This paper examines the situation of access to potable water and sanitation in Cameroon within the context of the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs), establishes whether Cameroon is on the track of meeting the MDGs in these domains and proposes actions to be taken to bring it closer to ...
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Rainwater harvesting practices and attitudes in the Mekong Delta of Vietnam
Access to safe drinking water is limited in the Mekong Delta region of Vietnam. Rainwater harvesting (RWH) at household level is among the primary sources of drinking water in the region and is widely practiced throughout Southeast Asia. It has recently been increasingly advocated as an alternative or supplemental approach to household water supply. However, relatively little research has been ...
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ANDA Installs MPC-Buoy systems in El Salvador to safeguard water supply
With the approval of a $100 million loan from The World Bank, the Administración Nacional de Acueductos y Alcantarillados (ANDA) has made substantial progress toward improving the consistency and quality of El Salvador’s water supply. ANDA has installed three MPC-Buoy systems created by LG Sonic in cooperation with strategic partners the United States Agency for International ...
By LG Sonic
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Inequitable allocation of deep community wells for reducing arsenic exposure in Bangladesh
Community wells that extend deeper than most private wells are crucial for reducing exposure to groundwater arsenic (As) in rural Bangladesh. This study evaluates the impact on access to safe drinking water of 915 such intermediate (90–150 m) and deep (>150 m) wells across a 180 km2 area where a total of 48,790 tubewells were tested with field kits in 2012–13. Half the shallow private ...
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[Wellspring] Purify Rainwater Without Electricity
Access to safe drinking water is a basic human right that remains a significant challenge in various parts of the world. Fortunately, rainwater can serve as a reliable source of clean drinking water, particularly in areas where groundwater is contaminated. The Wellspring-G water purifier is a cost-effective and portable solution that utilizes membranes to eliminate bacteria and microbes, making ...
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The Drop Store: A Stark Image of A Water-Scarce Future
One of the most pressing issues of the climate emergency is the water crisis, but it’s one of the least discussed aspects of climate breakdown… which is certainly interesting when you consider that water underpins every part of life in the 21st century and, without it, industry would grind to a halt, food production would falter, ecosystems would perish and it would ultimately spell ...
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Missing the Millennium Development Goal targets for water and sanitation in urban areas
"This paper reviews progress towards the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) for water and sanitation in urban areas. Drawing on UN data, it shows the disastrous performance of many low- and middle-income nations in relation to the goal of halving the proportion without drinking water sources piped on premises and improved sanitation between 1990 and 2015. It also describes how even such a poor ...
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