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Functioning and utilization of rural water supplies in Sarawak, Malaysia.
A cross-sectional survey of 976 households in 41 villages covered by the Rural Health Improvement Scheme in Sarawak was carried out to determine the state of functioning and utilization of rural water supplies. The survey was carried out by inspection and interview. About one-third of the systems were functioning well, one-third imperfectly, and the remainder were no longer functioning. The cov...
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The paper by Welch et al. entitled " Microbial quality of water in rural communities of Trinidad " (1) discussed aspects of water quality testing and expectations of safety of rural water supplies, and it affirmed similar observations of unpotability in developing countries that my colleagues and I described in a study in sub-Saharan Africa (2). The hazard of increased contamination of stored w...
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Between October 1982 and September 1983, an outbreak of cholera occurred in Transkei. A total of 678 patients with clinical illness were reported in a review of positive laboratory results. Subsequent to each report, the health department personnel began a rigorous contact-tracing process during which data on the environment were collected. A total of 1,157 standardised forms listing 6,615 pers...
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A bacteriological survey was conducted of untreated, individual groundwater supplies in Preston County, W.Va. Nearly 60% of the water supplies contained total coliforms in excess of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency maximum contaminant level of 1 CFU/100 ml. Approximately one-third of the water systems contained fecal coliforms and/or fecal streptococci. Acinetobacter spp. were detected ...
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In the Mekong Delta (MD) in Vietnam, piped-water supply stations are being intensively built to reach the millennium development goal (MDG) to provide safe and clean drinking water resources to communities. However, studies focusing on the effectiveness of supply stations in reaching these goals are scarce to date. Water samples from 41 water supply stations in the MD were collected between Jun...
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: Public Health
سال: 1903
ISSN: 0033-3506
DOI: 10.1016/s0033-3506(03)80016-1