How swachh (clean) is urban India today?

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Bhitush Lutra ◽  
◽  
Deepa Karthykeyan
Keyword(s):  
Quality Of Life ◽  
Drinking Water ◽  
Natural Environment ◽  
Public Utilities ◽  
Wide Spread ◽  
Negative Externalities ◽  
Public Supply ◽  
Urban India ◽  
Sachet Water

Where public supply has failed and made unsatisfactory progress in supplying drinking water, the private sector has readily stepped in to supply citizens with drinking water – most often to make big money. Much of the water bottling industry (i) provides a highly inelastic good, (ii) is immensely profitable and (iii) has significant negative externalities on public utilities, the natural environment and the quality of life in urban settings. The wide-spread introduction of a tax on the commercial water extraction and/or bottled or sachet water is ripe. The new mantra must not be “3Rs”, but “4Rs” – reduce, reuse, remunerate, recycle.

Windows opportunity for water and plastic management? The case for taxing bottled water

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Christian Fischer ◽  
Godfred Amankwaa
Keyword(s):  
Quality Of Life ◽  
Drinking Water ◽  
Private Sector ◽  
Natural Environment ◽  
Public Utilities ◽  
Wide Spread ◽  
Negative Externalities ◽  
Public Supply ◽  
Sachet Water

Where public supply has failed and made unsatisfactory progress in supplying drinking water, the private sector has readily stepped in to supply citizens with drinking water – most often to make big money. Much of the water bottling industry (i) provides a highly inelastic good, (ii) is immensely profitable and (iii) has significant negative externalities on public utilities, the natural environment and the quality of life in urban settings. The wide-spread introduction of a tax on the commercial water extraction and/or bottled or sachet water is ripe. The new mantra must not be “3Rs”, but “4Rs” – reduce, reuse, remunerate, recycle

Moving to paradise for the children’s sake

2018 ◽  
Vol 15 (1) ◽  
pp. 55-65 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mari Korpela
Keyword(s):  
Quality Of Life ◽  
Natural Environment ◽  
Moral Panic ◽  
Careful Attention ◽  
Lifestyle Choice ◽  
Transnational Mobility ◽  
Children’S Views

Increasing numbers of “Western” families spend several months a year in Goa, India, and the rest of the time in the parents’ passport countries or elsewhere. These “lifestyle migrants” are motivated by a search for “a better quality of life”, and the parents often claim that an important reason for their lifestyle choice is that it is better for the children to be in Goa, where they have enriching experiences and enjoy playing freely outdoors, in a natural environment. This article discusses parents’ and children’s views of this lifestyle. It argues that although the lifestyle sometimes causes moral panic among outsider adults who see regular transnational mobility as a sign of instability, a closer look reveals that there are various aspects of stability in the children’s lives. Paying careful attention to the parents’ and children’s own accounts, and the empirical realities of their lives, enables us to reach beyond normative judgements.

Visitor Centres as a Contribution to Improving Urban-Rural Relations

2020 ◽  
pp. 193-214
Author(s):  
Aleksandar Videnovic ◽  
Milos Arandjelovic
Keyword(s):  
Quality Of Life ◽  
Cultural Heritage ◽  
Natural Environment ◽  
Rural Areas ◽  
Main Task ◽  
Public Buildings ◽  
The Third ◽  
Urban Rural

The architecture of public buildings in rural areas, through the advancement of skills, knowledge, technologies, and materials, has become increasingly representative in recent decades, especially considering tourism as a global theme. The work is related to the planning of visitor centers in rural areas and the main task is defined by the effort to improve the quality of life in such areas, that is, highlight the major advantages in space, such as the natural environment. The aim of the research is defined by establishing certain elements in the planning of the visitor centers within the idea of promoting local values and cultural heritage. The first part of the chapter has been defined as an analysis of the theoretical views. The second part of the study has been defined as an analysis of the visitor centers. Through a case study, in the third part of the chapter, the work presents a comparative overview of the process to achieve two individual similar investments in Serbia and Bosnia-Herzegovina.

Regional Differences of Housing Environments in India

2018 ◽  
Vol 20 (1) ◽  
pp. 91-103
Author(s):  
A. K. Ravishankar
Keyword(s):  
Quality Of Life ◽  
Drinking Water ◽  
Management System ◽  
Regional Differences ◽  
National Sample ◽  
Sample Survey ◽  
The West ◽  
Housing Environment ◽  
West Region

In this article, an attempt is made to explore the regional differences of housing environment in India. This study is based on the 69th round of the National Sample Survey conducted in 2012. Data discloses that majority of the households in western and northern part of the nation received the drinking water through ‘pipe’ supply (68.9 and 67.2%, respectively). Getting the drinking water outside premises was more common among the eastern (56.2%), central (48.6%) and southern (47.1%) parts of India. The practice of treating the water by one or more methods before drinking was not a common practice in most of the regions of the country. More than three-fifths of the households in central and eastern regions did not access the bathroom facility (62.0% and 66.9%, respectively). Similarly, more than half of the households in these regions had no latrine facility (56.7% and 50.4%, respectively). Among the regions, the west region had good garbage management system than the rest of regions. It can be concluded that the regional differences are noticed in respect of the housing environments. It is recommended that the regional specific schemes/plans should be adopted to remove the regional differences to improve the overall quality of life of Indians.

scholarly journals Sources of microbiological contamination in sachet water from Ghana

2020 ◽  
Vol 10 (2) ◽  
pp. 202-208
Author(s):  
Asli Aslan ◽  
Haresh Rochani ◽  
Oghenekpaobor Oyibo ◽  
J. Edward Dotherow ◽  
Kendall W. Anderson ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Drinking Water ◽  
Quantitative Polymerase Chain Reaction ◽  
Microbiological Quality ◽  
Total Coliform ◽  
Primary Sources ◽  
Source Tracking ◽  
E Coli ◽  
Sewage Contamination ◽  
Sachet Water

Abstract Sachet water is one of the primary sources of drinking water in rapidly growing countries. A study to assess the microbiological quality of sachet water in 21 different brands was conducted in Ghana. Culturable total coliform was positive in 87% of the samples collected, where Escherichia coli colonies were absent. The analysis of quantitative polymerase chain reaction results indicated the presence of E. coli genes in 44.6% of the samples, with the highest concentration up to 3,166 CCE/100 ml. Microbial source tracking analyses showed that the source of E. coli genes did not originate from sewage contamination because the human-associated HF183 marker was not detected. Of the 175 samples tested, 71% did not mention any water treatment before filling the packages. These results suggest non-human sources of contamination, such as biofilm formation in the pipelines used to fill these packages due to poor disinfection. Our study shows an urgent need for increased regulation and standardized manufacturing of sachet water to ensure safe drinking water.

scholarly journals Microbiological and Chemical Quality of Packaged Sachet Water and Household Stored Drinking Water in Freetown, Sierra Leone

PLoS ONE ◽  
2015 ◽  
Vol 10 (7) ◽  
pp. e0131772 ◽  
Author(s):  
Michael B. Fisher ◽  
Ashley R. Williams ◽  
Mohamed F. Jalloh ◽  
George Saquee ◽  
Robert E. S. Bain ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Drinking Water ◽  
Sierra Leone ◽  
Chemical Quality ◽  
Sachet Water

scholarly journals Quality of basic sanitation in the municipaty of Teotônio Vilela, Alagoas, Brazil

2020 ◽  
Vol 5 (3) ◽  
pp. 1536-1546
Author(s):  
Thamyres Valeriano Teixeira ◽  
Arrysson Cardoso da Silva ◽  
Jailza Maria dos Santos ◽  
Maria José de Holanda Leite
Keyword(s):  
Quality Of Life ◽  
Drinking Water ◽  
Human Action ◽  
Health Problems ◽  
Urban Waste ◽  
Basic Sanitation

Most health problems affecting the world's population are intrinsically related to the environment. Basic sanitation can be considered as an instrument for the prevention of diseases caused by the environment through human action. Thus, the objective of the present study was to survey the perception of the residents about the conditions of basic sanitation in the municipality of Teotônio Vilela – AL. Twenty-five semi-structured questionnaires were applied, addressing Basic sanitation issues. After the analyses we found the need to implement a basic sanitation network, so as to avoid diseases that are transmitted through the use of non-drinking water, the irregular destination of sewage and solid urban waste, which affect the quality of life.

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