Drinking water is closely related to human health, disease and mortality, and contaminated
drinking water causes 485,000 deaths from diarrhea each year worldwide. China has been …

One of the consequences of the generally agreed rise of global temperatures, furtherly
exacerbated by the growth of water demand caused by the needs of a growing population, is …

Accelerating challenges to cities and communities have triggered a growing interest in the
assessment of resilience and sustainability of future developments. For this purpose, many …

We conducted an expert assessment to obtain expert opinions on the relative global
resilience of ten drinking water and five sanitation technologies to the following six climate …

The challenges for society presented by climate change are complex and demanding. This
paper focuses on one particular resource of utmost necessity and vulnerability to climate …

Climate change, increased temperatures and imbalanced precipitation distributions will
potentially increase the local drought risk in certain areas. Drought assessment can identify …

A boil water advisory (BWA) informs the public that there is an increased level of risk
associated with their water and that they should boil it before consuming. Studies show that …

There is dearth of studies on climate change based vulnerabilities of the urban people. It has
been a matter of widespread debate whether nature of livelihood has any role to play in …

COVID-19 has presented itself with an extreme impact on the resources of its epi-centres. In
Uganda, there is uncertainty about what will happen especially in the main urban hub, the …

The risk analysis of flood and drought disasters and the study of their influencing factors
enhance our understanding of the temporal and spatial variation law of disasters and help …