23 Articles found
DelAgua Group Articles
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DelAgua Case Study - GVC in Lebanon
GVC are a non-governmental, secular and independent organisation, founded in 1971. They are active all over the world carrying out development aid projects. The flow of refugees to Lebanon has increased the population by 25% and, as a ...
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DelAgua Case Study - Harikar NGO and CARE in Northern Iraq
Harikar NGO are working with CARE to provide water quality testing in camps for IDPs (Internationally Displaced People), in Northern Iraq. CARE have carried out a 2-day training course with Harikar field staff on the DelAgua Kit so they are able to ...
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DelAgua Kit Case Study - Comet-ME Testing in South Mount Hebron Region
Comet-ME is an Israeli-Palestinian NGO providing sustainable off-grid energy and water services to rural Palestinian communities in the South Mount Hebron region of the occupied Palestinian territories. The local Palestinian communities are not ...
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The Importance of Water Testing After Natural Disasters
In the aftermath of a natural disaster, particularly earthquakes, infrastructure could be damaged and a safe source of drinking water is often not available. This may be due to damaged pipes or water supplies becoming contaminated. Our colleagues ...
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World Water Week: Water is a right, water is life
As we celebrate World Water Week (23 – 28 August 2015), we remember that millions of people worldwide still do not have access to clean drinking water. Yoka Brandt, Unicef Deputy Executive Director, writes about the right for every ...
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Water: At a Tipping Point
The Stockholm World Water Week’s focus on “Water for Development” comes at an opportune time. Water as a sector in world affairs is reaching a tipping point. Over the next two decades and more, the global push for food and energy ...
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How Pain Keeps us from Acting on Climate Change
In my daily work, I read a lot of online articles about climate change—both the science and the politics—and out of curiosity I’m invariably drawn to the comments section at the end of the page (first rule of the ...
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The Awareness and Perception of Climate Change Around The World
A new study published on Monday 27th July in the journal Nature Climate Change, provides a more inclusive look at awareness and attitudes towards climate change, giving scientists greater insight into what factors are most likely to make people care ...
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DelAgua Kit Case Study, Daisy Adams in The Gambia
DELAGUA KIT CASE STUDY, DAISY ADAMS IN THE GAMBIA Daisy Adams undertook a study with Water for Africa in August 2014, in The Gambia using a DelAgua Test Kit. Daisy carried out sanitary hazard ...
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Agreement Reached to Generate Financing for New Sustainable Development Agenda
Countries have agreed on vital new measures to overhaul global finance practices and generate investments for tackling a range of economic, social and environmental challenges, at the United Nations Third ...
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Why international aid for water, sanitation and hygiene is still a critical source of finance for many countries
This new WaterAid report, based on analysis by Development Initiatives, shows that for many low-income, Least Developed Countries and fragile states, international aid or ODA remains a vital resource for financing development. 2015 is a landmark ...
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Achieving a cleaner, more sustainable and healthier future
In 2009, as countries prepared to negotiate a global climate treaty in Copenhagen, Denmark, the front cover of the first Lancet Commission on health and climate change issued a stark warning: “Climate change is the greatest health ...
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Q&A with Dr Ashi Tudugalle
Ashanthie Tudugalle (Ashi) is the newest member of the DelAgua team and is the company’s Technical Services Executive. Ashi recently completed a PhD at the University of Surrey in Microbiology & Immunology where she spent the last 6 years ...
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Can Social Enterprise Help 700 Million Who Lack Access to Clean Water?
The problem of global water access is as intransigent as they come. Some 768 million people – more than the population of Europe – still lack access to clean water. Likewise, this year’s Millennium Development Goal target of ...
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DelAgua Kit Case Study - Columbia University in Peru
Brinda Sivaramakrishnan a graduate student at Columbia University, New York City, working with the Catholic Medical Mission of Peru (CMMB) travelled to Huancayo, Peru as part of a programme called 'Healthy Mother, Healthy Child in the First 1000 ...
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DelAgua Kit Case Study - Duke University in Uganda
Duke University students Liz Kendall, Alayne Potter and Francis Oggeri used the DelAgua Kit during a two month long project in Migyera working with 'ChangeALife' Uganda. Migyera is a community where access to reliable clean water is a large ...
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Guidelines for drinking water quality Addendum to Vol 2 Health Criteria
In 1984 and 1985, the World Health Organization (WHO) published the first edition of Guidelines for drinking-water quality in three volumes. The development of these guidelines was organized and carried out jointly by WHO headquarters and the WHO ...
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Care Oxfam-DelAgua Kit Case Study - Yemen
Generally water quality testing is done to monitor the maintenance and operation of drinking water systems. In Yemen CARE uses the DelAgua water testing kit (developed by OXFAM, reproduced by the Robens Centre for Public and Environmental Health, ...
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Surveillance and Improvement of Peruvian Drinking Water Case Study
The surveillance and quality control of public water supplies are vital prerequisites for the protection of public health. In practice however, the two activities of surveillance and quality control are often confused and inadequately implemented, ...
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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 ...