Global issues in water, sanitation, and health : workshop summary
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Global issues in water, sanitation, and health : workshop summary
National Academies Press, c2009
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Running dry : call to action
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Includes DVD: Running dry : call to action / the Chronicles Group
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Description
As the human population grows-tripling in the past century while, simultaneously, quadrupling its demand for water-Earth's finite freshwater supplies are increasingly strained, and also increasingly contaminated by domestic, agricultural, and industrial wastes. Today, approximately one-third of the world's population lives in areas with scarce water resources. Nearly one billion people currently lack access to an adequate water supply, and more than twice as many lack access to basic sanitation services. It is projected that by 2025 water scarcity will affect nearly two-thirds of all people on the planet.
Recognizing that water availability, water quality, and sanitation are fundamental issues underlying infectious disease emergence and spread, the Institute of Medicine held a two-day public workshop, summarized in this volume. Through invited presentations and discussions, participants explored global and local connections between water, sanitation, and health; the spectrum of water-related disease transmission processes as they inform intervention design; lessons learned from water-related disease outbreaks; vulnerabilities in water and sanitation infrastructure in both industrialized and developing countries; and opportunities to improve water and sanitation infrastructure so as to reduce the risk of water-related infectious disease.
Table of Contents
Front Matter
Workshop Overview
1 Global Problems, Local Solutions
2 Lessons from Waterborne Disease Outbreaks
3 Vulnerable Infrastructure and Waterborne Disease Risk
4 Addressing Risk for Waterborne Disease
Appendix A: Agenda
Appendix B: Acronyms
Appendix C: Glossary
Appendix D: Forum Member Biographies
Table of Contents
- 1 Front Matter
- 2 Workshop Overview
- 3 1 Global Problems, Local Solutions
- 4 2 Lessons from Waterborne Disease Outbreaks
- 5 3 Vulnerable Infrastructure and Waterborne Disease Risk
- 6 4 Addressing Risk for Waterborne Disease
- 7 Appendix A: Agenda
- 8 Appendix B: Acronyms
- 9 Appendix C: Glossary
- 10 Appendix D: Forum Member Biographies
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