Safe drinking water interventions for home and outside use Contents The LifeStraw® Concept Drinking Water Crisis The Link between Diarrhoea and HIV The Health Impact of Water Filtration LifeStraw® Family – Product Features LifeStraw® Family – Functioning LifeStraw® Family – Usage LifeStraw® Family – Comparison to other Point-of-Use Interventions for Safe Drinking Water LifeStraw® Family – Microbiological Performance LifeStraw® Family – Health Impact LifeStraw® Family – Durability LifeStraw®
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bodies of water bearing an immense biological importance. Though they contain only about 0.0001% of the total amount of water in the world at any given time‚ rivers are vital carriers of water and nutrients to areas all around the earth‚ they are essential components of the hydrological cycle‚ for they act as drainage channels for surface water and they serve as habitat for various organisms (Hebert‚ 2011). With rapid increase of the country’s population and urbanization‚ bodies of water tremendously
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IKO-MAJI (A Safe Water Initiative for Communities and Schools) ECOTACT LIMITED 2012 P.O. Box 24045‚ 00100 GPO Nairobi‚ Kenya Menelik Road‚ off Ngong Road Tel: +254 020 2459130 Cell: +254 733 759 888 www.ecotact.org Introduction "There is a water crisis today. But the crisis is not about having too little water to satisfy our needs. It is a crisis of managing water so badly that billions of people - and the environment - suffer badly." World Water Vision Report. The water sector in Kenya
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carriers of communicable diseases e.g. rats (UNHCR‚ 2013). The quality of drinking water is an influential determinant of health and the guarantee of clean and safe drinking water is a foundation for the prevention and control of water borne diseases (WHO‚ 2013). Lack of water and facilities to take away waste water in the refugee camps lead to hygiene problems and water borne diseases (Maden‚ 2013). There has been lack of water in some of these Syrian refugee camps (Maden‚ 2013). The provision and
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villages of Assam would show. Some problems in the villages of Assam: A major problem in most of the villages of Assam is the problem of safe drinking water. In Assam there are 23‚ 405 villages as per 1971 census‚ out of which 21‚715 have been identified as problem villages so far as safe drinking water is concerned. As a result‚ they have been affected by water borne diseases. Secondly‚ many of the villages still lack the modern amenities like electricity. Thirdly‚ lack of proper educational infrastructures
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Innovative Way of Purifying Water RESEARCHERS: Jay Mark Reponte Romarilyn Grace Maata Clark Ervin Conturno Julizees Malabar INTRODUCTION Background of the Study Drinking water is a basic human need‚ including food‚ shelter and clothing. The lack of safe drinking water is a leading cause of mortality‚ especially in local communities where waterborne diseases are persistent due to low quality surface source waters. Appropriate treatment technology can render this poor water resource into safe
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How is water perceived in this world? After exploring many different sites and readings‚ just in the community that I go to school in‚ and a wonderful teacher of mine that is fully aware of the environmental issues that humans are creating‚ helped me perceive water in the world differently. Water is perceived in many different ways around the world by different people. In third world countries it’s a fight for water daily for many people in Sudan whereas if you were in America you could just
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effects. The estuarine flood that commonly caused by a combination of sea tidal surges caused by storm-force winds can causes casualties. The other effects are the contamination of water at the water supplies. The drinking water becomes scarce. This will causes diseases in unhygienic condition that will spread water-borne diseases. For example‚ amoebiasis (hand-to-mouth)‚ cryptosporidiosis (oral)‚ Microsporidiosis and other kind of diseases. The third effects is economics hardship that due to temporary
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STRATEGY OF MINERAL WATER INDUSTRY [A CASE STUDY OF BISLERI] A RESEARCH REPORT SUBMITTED IN THE PARTIAL FULFILLMENT OF THE REQUIREMENT FOR THE DEGREE OF MASTER OF BUSINESS ADMINISTRATION INDRAPRASTHA UNIVERSITY‚ DELHI 06) TO (2004- Submitted To : Submitted By : Mrs. Harpreet Kaur Nitesh Kumar BLS INSTITUTE OF MANAGEMENT MOHAN NAGAR GHAZIABAD CONTENTS CONTENTS Acknowledgement Executive Summary INTRODUCTION About the industry Mineral Water Industry- Current
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Should fluorine be added to water? Introduction: Fluoride is a natural mineral and a chemical‚ which is a compound of fluorine that is the most commonly used in water sources. However not only for that‚ it also has a various number of other uses in example: making molten metals flow‚ and burning materials etc. as it is an extremely reactive and highly toxic element‚ so when it comes to adding fluoride to public water‚ that’s when mankind is faced with some extremely
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