Do Community Water Sources Provide Safe Drinking Water? Evidence from a Randomized Experiment in Rural Bangladesh

Willingness to Pay for Arsenic-free, Safe Drinking Water in Rural Bangladesh – Methodology and Results

Water Quality Index for measuring drinking water quality in rural Bangladesh: a cross-sectional study

BACKGROUND Public health is at risk due to chemical contaminants in drinking water which may have immediate health consequences. Drinking water sources are susceptible to pollutants depending on geological conditions and agricultural, industrial, and other man-made activities. Ensuring the safety of drinking water is, therefore, a growing problem. To assess drinking water quality, we measured m...

Bacteriological and physico-chemical quality of drinking water sources in a rural community of Ethiopia.

BACKGROUND Accesses to safe water is a universal need however, many of the world's population lack access to adequate and safe water. Consumption of water contaminated causes health risk to the public and the situation is serous in rural areas. OBJECTIVES To assess the bacteriological and physico-chemical quality of drinking water sources in a rural community of Ethiopia. METHODS Water samp...

Chronic Arsenic Toxicity from Drinking Well Water in a Rural Area

Background: Drinking water is the most important cause of poisoning in the world. Iran is one of the countries with arsenic-contaminated water upper limit of normal. In this study, we decided to determine the effects of chronic arsenic poisoning on demographic, clinical and laboratory features of people. Methods: This descriptive-sectional study carried out on all people resided in Shahidabad ...

The Quality Variations of the Drinking Water Sources in the Rural Regions of Sabzevar County in a Five Year Period

Background and purpose: Water is the most important limiting factor of sustainable development. Poor quality of water sources and lack of appropriate management in some regions are the main reasons of water crises in the country. This study was conducted to assess water sources quality and the trend of their change in rural area of Sabzevar County in a five year period. Materials and Met...