scholarly journals Community Perception to Reduce Safe Drinking Water Scarcity A Case Study at Debishing Para In Rajshahi City Corporation Area, Bangladesh

2018 ◽  
Vol 2 (4) ◽  
Author(s):  
Lamia Ferdous
Keyword(s):  
Drinking Water ◽  
Water Scarcity ◽  
Safe Drinking Water ◽  
Community Perception ◽  
Rajshahi City

Ensuring access to water in an emergency context: Towards an overexploitation and contamination of water resources?

2021 ◽  
pp. 096466392110316
Author(s):  
Chloé Nicolas-Artero
Keyword(s):  
Drinking Water ◽  
Water Resources ◽  
Qualitative Methods ◽  
Water Scarcity ◽  
Water Rights ◽  
Environmental Crisis ◽  
Supply Network ◽  
Mining Pollution ◽  
Access To Water

This article shows how geo-legal devices created to deal with environmental crisis situations make access to drinking water precarious and contribute to the overexploitation and contamination of water resources. It relies on qualitative methods (interviews, observations, archive work) to identify and analyse two geo-legal devices applied in the case study of the Elqui Valley in Chile. The first device, generated by the Declaration of Water Scarcity, allows private sanitation companies to concentrate water rights and extend their supply network, thus producing an overexploitation of water resources. In the context of mining pollution, the second device is structured around the implementation of the Rural Drinking Water Programme and the distribution of water by tankers, which has made access to drinking water more precarious for the population and does nothing to prevent pollution.

scholarly journals Producing Safe Drinking Water Using an Atmospheric Water Generator (AWG) in an Urban Environment

Water ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 12 (10) ◽  
pp. 2940
Author(s):  
Offir Inbar ◽  
Igal Gozlan ◽  
Stanislav Ratner ◽  
Yaron Aviv ◽  
Roman Sirota ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Drinking Water ◽  
Urban Environment ◽  
Water Scarcity ◽  
New Technologies ◽  
Sampling Site ◽  
Inorganic Ions ◽  
Safe Drinking Water ◽  
Atmospheric Water ◽  
Alternative Source ◽  
Dew Water

Alternative new technologies are urgently needed to overcome the rapidly increasing global water scarcity. Atmospheric dew water is a potential source of potable water, as the earth’s atmosphere contains billions of tons of fresh water (98% in a vapor state). The atmospheric water generator (AWG) converts water vapor into liquid water and is a promising solution for water scarcity. We provide the first comprehensive analysis of the chemical profiles of water produced for several months by an AWG in the city of Tel Aviv, Israel. Metals, inorganic ions, volatile organic compounds (VOCs), and semi-VOCs were analyzed in the dew water. The main elements found were ammonium, calcium, sulfate, and nitrate. Location of the sampling site in an urban residential area, between major traffic routes, likely affected the chemical composition of the produced dew water. Nevertheless, the produced water nearly always (day and night in different seasons) met the WHO and Israeli drinking water standards. Thus, even in a highly developed urban environment, the AWG offers an excellent alternative source of safe drinking water throughout the year.

scholarly journals DETERMINANTS OF SAFE DRINKING WATER IN PAKISTAN: A CASE STUDY OF FAISALABAD

2016 ◽  
Vol 04 (01) ◽  
pp. 40-45 ◽  
Author(s):  
Hasan Zulfiqar ◽  
Qasir Abbas ◽  
Ali Raza ◽  
Amjad Ali
Keyword(s):  
Drinking Water ◽  
Safe Drinking Water

Scarcity to solution: perceived reasons for safe drinking water scarcity and local coping responses in a coastal village of Bangladesh

2016 ◽  
Vol 7 (3) ◽  
pp. 542-550
Author(s):  
Md. Ali Imam ◽  
Md. Zahidul Haque ◽  
Samiha Yunus
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Drinking Water ◽  
Water Scarcity ◽  
Cost Effective ◽  
Tree Planting ◽  
Small Scale ◽  
Safe Drinking Water ◽  
Coping Responses ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Perceived Reasons

People are directly and indirectly exposed to changing weather patterns through changes in the quality of water, air, and food changes in ecosystems, agriculture, industry, human settlements and the economy. Hence, this study explored local perceived reasons for safe drinking water scarcity and under such circumstances the coping responses in their region. This is a descriptive study based on qualitative methods. Male and female informants (30 + years of age) were purposively identified and data for the study were collected in three ways, through observation and informal discussion, in-depth interviews (n = 18), and three focus group discussions in a coastal village of Bangladesh. Climate change consequences include damaged trees and increased salinity intrusion, leading to a scarcity of safe drinking water. To cope with such scarcity of water, small scale road side mangrove tree planting was found to protect fresh water from salt water. In addition, cost effective rainwater preservation in the community during the rainy season was taken as mitigation of the scarcity of safe drinking water. Considering the geographical and socio-economic context of any specific region, cost effective and environment friendly local adaptive measures can reduce or mitigate the impact of climate change on water resources.

scholarly journals Challenges to Sustainable Safe Drinking Water: A Case Study of Water Quality and Use across Seasons in Rural Communities in Limpopo Province, South Africa

Water ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 10 (2) ◽  
pp. 159 ◽  
Author(s):  
Joshua Edokpayi ◽  
Elizabeth Rogawski ◽  
David Kahler ◽  
Courtney Hill ◽  
Catherine Reynolds ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
South Africa ◽  
Water Quality ◽  
Drinking Water ◽  
Rural Communities ◽  
Limpopo Province ◽  
Safe Drinking Water

scholarly journals Sorbent-embedded sheets for safe drinking water in developing countries: a case study of lead(II) removal by a zeolite-embedded sheet

2017 ◽  
Vol 16 (1) ◽  
pp. 159-163 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lester Botoman ◽  
Elvis Shukla ◽  
Erni Johan ◽  
Satoshi Mitsunobu ◽  
Naoto Matsue
Keyword(s):  
Developing Countries ◽  
Drinking Water ◽  
Water Purification ◽  
Type A ◽  
Rural Populations ◽  
Safe Drinking Water ◽  
Lta Zeolite ◽  
Removal Of Contaminants ◽  
Safety Of Drinking Water

Abstract Although many kinds of materials for water purification are known, easy-to-use methods that ensure the safety of drinking water for rural populations are not sufficiently available. Sorbent-embedded sheets provide methods for the easy removal of contaminants from drinking water in the home. As an example of such a sorbent-embedded sheet, we prepared a Linde type A (LTA) zeolite-embedded sheet (ZES) and examined its Pb(II) removal behaviour. Different amounts of LTA were added either as powder or as ZES to 0.3 mM Pb(NO3)2 solutions containing 2.5 mM Ca(NO3)2, in which the ratio of the negative charges in LTA to the positive charges in Pb(II) (LTA/Pb ratio) ranged from 1 to 20. After shaking, the mixtures were centrifuged to remove the powder, while the ZES was simply removed from the mixture by hand. The LTA powder removed more than 99% of the Pb(II) from the solution at all LTA/Pb ratios within 1 h, while the ZES removed >99% of the Pb(II) at LTA/Pb ratios of 2 and higher; at the highest LTA/Pb ratio of 20, the ZES removed >99% of the Pb(II) in 30 s. Therefore, the use of appropriate sorbent-embedded sheets enable the facile removal of contaminants from water.

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