Approved type of water facilities Level 1 (Point Source) * a protected well or a developed spring with an outlet but without a distribution system * indicated for rural areas * serves 15-25 households; its outreach is not more than 250 m from the farthest user * yields 40-140 L/ min Level II (Communal Faucet or Stand Posts) * With a source‚ reservoir‚ piped distribution network and communal faucets * Located at not more than 25 m from the farthest house * Delivers
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What’s In Your Water: Drinking Water Quality and How Expanding Urbanization is Affecting It Makayla T. Cohen Miami Dade College Abstract This paper explores the issue of drinking water quality and the influence that expanding urbanization has on it. Background information will also be given‚ as well as current and future work being done to help improve drinking water quality. Finally‚ a few suggestions will be given on what each person can do to help the quality of water. Keywords: Urbanization
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The water fountain as we know it was first invented in the early 1906 and is credited to two men - Halsey Willard Taylor and Luther Haws. Haws patented the first drinking faucet in 1911. with the primary motivation being to provide safer drinking water and avoid the risk of typhoid fever caused by contaminated water. (Luther Haws’ father had died of typhoid fever precipitated by contaminated water.) From those humble beginnings‚ when water coolers used large blocks of ice to chill the water
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The environmental problem I chose in my local area of Pennsville‚ New Jersey is the pollution of our water sources. The impact of the industrial discharge‚ pesticides‚ atmospheric deposition‚ and urban street run off is causing depleted oxygen levels‚ our fish to test positive for Polychlorinated Biphenyls (PCBs)‚ aquatic life impairment of Phosphorous and Total Suspended Solids (TSS)‚ Nitrogen contamination‚ and primary contact recreation to be contaminated by Enterococcus Bacteria and Fecal Coliform
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Enough Drinking Water Pop culture has recently become obsessed with trying to provide clean drinking water to those who do not have it. This is a pathetic issue to choose to fix. These poor people are a waste of space and need to learn how to fix their own problems instead of turning to the reach to fix them. Do you think the rich got rich by relying on other people? No. They found easy solutions to their difficult problems. People have wasted tons of money on giving these people clean water supplies
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& Gamble Company (P&G) boasts a boatload of top household brands. The world’s largest maker of consumer packaged goods divides its business into two global units: Beauty and Grooming and Household Care. The company also makes pet food and water filters. About two dozen of P&G’s brands are billion-dollar sellers‚ including Always‚ Braun‚ Crest‚ Fusion‚ Gillette‚ Head & Shoulders‚ Mach3‚ Olay‚ Oral-B‚ Pantene‚ and Wella in the beauty‚ grooming‚ health care‚ and snacks & pet care
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INDIA’S WATER MANAGEMENT Nearly 90 percent of India’s diseases are caused by unsanitary water conditions. According to the World Bank‚ 88 percent of all diseases in India are caused by unsafe drinking water‚ inadequate sanitation and poor hygiene. Annual‚ water-related problems are responsible for: 4 billion cases of diarrhea‚ resulting in the deaths of more than 6 million children‚ 300 million malaria sufferers‚ 6 million people who have been struck blind by trachoma‚ and 500 million people who
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Water Contamination and Disinfection Tabatha Hatler SCI 207: Dependence of Man On The Environment Alisha Etheredge September 8‚ 2013 Water Contamination and Disinfection Introduction Water contamination is vastly becoming an alarming issue across the world. We rely on clean water to survive‚ yet right now we are heading towards a water crisis. Changing climate patterns are threatening lakes and rivers‚ and key sources that
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KNOWLEDGE ATTITUDES AND PRACTICES (KAP) END-LINE ASSESSMENT On Water‚ Sanitation and Hygiene LOLKUACH Village‚ IDPs of Akobo September-2012 DRC-Gambella WASH Team Conducted in the frame of an ECHO funded project “Improving access to short-term food security‚ safe drinking water‚ hygiene and basic household items in Ethiopia” Wanthowa Worda‚ Gambella‚ Ethiopia September 30‚ 2012 i TABLE OF CONTENTS 1 2 3 3.1 INTRODUCTION SUMMARY OF FINDINGS METHODOLOGY Objectives of the Survey 1 2
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SPRING CLEANING: RURAL WATER IMPACTS‚ VALUATION‚ AND PROPERTY RIGHTS INSTITUTIONS∗ MICHAEL KREMER JESSICA LEINO EDWARD MIGUEL ALIX PETERSON ZWANE I. INTRODUCTION Movement toward private property rights institutions has been called critical to successful economic development (De Soto 1989; North 1990). Yet social norms and formal laws often create communal property rights in natural resources. In Islamiclaw‚ for ∗ This research is supported by the Hewlett Foundation‚ USDA/Foreign Agricultural
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