Groundwater currently provides 98 percent of all the drinking water supply in Bangladesh. Groundwater is found throughout Bangladesh but its quality (that is, arsenic and salinity contamination) and quantity (that is, water storage depletion) vary across hydrological environments, posing unique...

Drinking water plays an important role in the life of living organisms, including humans. Among the indicators that are used to determine the suitability of water for drinking is its hardness. The water hardness index is calculated by the presence of Ca2+and Mg2+salts in it. Athigh...

This report presents Michigan local government leaders' assessments of issues related to the provision of drinking water in their communities, including threats to water safety, the condition of infrastructure, challenges regarding shared local drinking water systems, funding of these systems,...

Water, sanitation, and hygiene interventions are increasingly recognized as essential for improving nutritional outcomes in children. Emerging literature describes the negative effects of poor sanitation on child growth. However, limited evidence has shown a link between water quality and...

The article assesses, from a sustainable development perspective, the current consumption model for drinking water in Krakow. Based on the available literature, it evaluates the quality of tap water in Krakow and compares it with the standards for bottled water. Next it assesses the economic...

In 1990, 30 per cent of Indonesian population had no access to improved drinking water source. Almost 65 per cent lacked access to improved sanitation — and almost 40 per cent defecate in the open. One of the Millennium Development Goals' objectives is to halve these numbers of disadvantaged...

An Index of Drinking Water Adequacy (referred to as IDWA-I in this paper) was first proposed in 2007 for 23 member countries of the Asian Development Bank (ADB), and formed part of the Asian Water and Development Outlook (AWDO), 2007 brought out by the ADB. IDWA-I was obtained by averaging 5...

This paper utilizes information from the 2015 Nigeria National Water and Sanitation Survey to identify the extent, timing, as well as reasons for the failure of water points. The paper finds that more than 38 percent of all improved water points are nonfunctional. The results indicate that...

This paper focus on policy of drinking water demand with application on Tunisian panel data. We estimate a model which explains consummate volume by the five slices of tariff corresponding to the progressive pricing. Long term results show that prices UP1, UP3 and UP5 has no effects on the...