69 Introduction Drinking water is an important health behavior to support overall child health. Research indicates that children are consuming too little water and too many sugary drinks.1 Overconsumption of sugary drinks increases child risk for the epidemics of obesity and diet-related chronic diseases like type-II diabetes, stroke, and heart disease.2 Increasing access to appealing, low-cost...

Headwater streams constitute the majority of watersheds in the United States and many in the midwest have been channelized for agricultural drainage. Public health implications of water chemistry and aquatic insects within channelized and unchannelized headwater streams have not been explored. We sampled water chemistry and aquatic insects in two channelized and two unchannelized headwater stre...

This study was conducted over seven villages near Darbandikhan district including (2) wells and (5) springs. It covers more than 60 km, to assess the suitability of ground water quality for drinking purpose using water quality index through investigating of different wells and springs; this technique is very useful tool for quick assessment for any water system. This was done by subjecting the ...

A perspective on arsenic “safety” in food and soils in Bangladesh is provided by using current limits or standards for arsenic (As) that have been established by various countries and organizations. Approaches to setting standards for Bangladesh using some of these values are discussed. One approach to determining safe levels of As in food is by comparison to safety standards for drinking water...

background: this study was carried out to determination of heavy metals (cd, cr, cu, fe, pb, ni and zn) concentration in upstream and downstream of the entry of the wastewater (untreated urban, traditional slaughterhouse waste, leachate from solid wastes has accumulated in river and  run off waters flowing across the city ) to the tembi river. methods: samples were collected for 1 year, before ...

Legal Protection for Drinking Water Consumers at Depots That Do Not Meet Health Standards (Research Study in Aceh Tamiang District)

This study assessed drinking water quality, sanitation, and hygiene (WASH) conditions among 708 schoolchildren and 562 households in Dolakha and Ramechhap districts of Nepal. Cross-sectional surveys were carried out in March and June 2015. A Delagua water quality testing kit was employed on 634 water samples obtained from 16 purposively selected schools, 40 community water sources, and 562 hous...

fuzzy water quality index (fwqi) was applied in order to assess the degree of drinking water resources in yazd province, iran. thisstudy has also offered the creation of a new fuzzy water quality index (fwqi) to evaluate this tool’s applicability. 12 chemicalparameters including toxic and non-toxic heavy metals measured in 71 groundwater samples collected from drinking water resourcesin rural a...