Background Preventive chemotherapy represents a powerful but short-term control strategy
for soil-transmitted helminthiasis. Since humans are often re-infected rapidly, long-term …

Background Lack of access to and use of water, sanitation and hygiene (WASH) cause 1.6
million deaths every year, of which 1.2 million are due to gastrointestinal illnesses like …

Purifying water using solar energy is a suitable green technique for rejecting salts from
saline water. Solar stills are famous and simple devices for sea water desalination but their …

The performance of single-slope double-basin solar stills was evaluated with the use of
small pile of wick materials in lower basin of stills. For the study, two similar single-slope …

Background Water is the most abundant resource on earth, however water scarcity affects
more than 40% of people worldwide. Access to safe drinking water is a basic human right …

Solar water disinfection (SODIS) is one the cheapest and most suitable treatments to
produce safe drinking water at the household level in resource-poor settings. This review …

Gastrointestinal waterborne diseases, continue to stand out among the most lethal diseases
in develo** countries, because of consuming contaminated water taken from unsafe …

For many decades, populations in rural and remote develo** regions will be unable to
access centralised piped potable water supplies, and indeed, decentralised options may be …

Globally, approximately 2 billion people lack microbiologically safe drinking water. Boiling is
the most prevalent household water treatment method, yet evidence of its health impact is …

Waterborne diseases account for 1.5 million deaths a year globally, particularly affecting
children in low-income households in subtropical areas. It is one of the most enduring and …