The first organism able to substitute one of the six chemical elements crucial to life has been found.
The bacterium, found in a California lake, use...
Inadequate measures of water quality have been used in many studies of the health effects associated with water supplies in developing countries. The...
Fluorine is a highly-reactive element that is found in a number of commonly-occurring rocks. It
occurs naturally in some groundwater sources and in a ...
Generally water quality testing is done to monitor the maintenance and operation of drinking water systems. In Yemen CARE uses the Delagua water testi...
Working alongside the people of Ethiopia, WaterAid is helping bring clean water and safe sanitation to drought-hit areas, as Leonora Oppenheim discove...
Management becomes more important when a productive resource - like water - is scarce. As we approach the limit of what is available, we need to mana...
The Sphere Project was launched in 1997 by a group of humanitarian NGOs and the Red Cross and Red Crescent movement. Sphere is based on two core beli...
According to the WHO/UNICEF Joint Monitoring Programme for Water Supply and Sanitation (JMP), 2.5 billion people still remain without improved sanitat...
This case study documents how ground water exploitation in peri-urban area is affecting local population who are primarily dependent upon agriculture....