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Title Interlacing water and human health : case studies from South Asia / editors Anjal Prakash, V.S. Saravanan, Jayati Chourey
Published New Delhi : SAGE India, 2011

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Description 1 online resource (499 pages)
Series Water in South Asia
Water in South Asia.
Contents Cover; Contents; Series Editor's Note; List of Tables; List of Figures; List of Maps; List of Abbreviations; Acknowledgements; PART I: Backdrop; 1 -- Interlacing Water and Health in South Asia: The Problematique; 2 -- Good Evidences, Bad Linkages: A Review of Water and Health in South Asia; 3 -- Water, Health and Poverty in South Asia: Examining the Interface in India; PART II: Water Supply, Sanitation and Human Health; 4 -- Madhya Pradesh's Complex Challenges: Undernutrition and Infectious Diseases
5 -- Inequalities in Access to Safe Drinking Water, Sanitation and Childhood Undernutrition in India6 -- Access to Safe Water and Health: Mortality, Morbidity and Malnutrition in Nepal; 7 -- Disease Burden Linked to Incomplete Water and Sanitation Coverage in Orissa, India; PART III: Intensification of Agriculture, Water and Health; 8 -- Arsenic Contamination, Toxicity and Health Effects: Cases from India and Bangladesh; 9 -- Arsenic Pollution and Reproductive Health: A Case Study of Murshidabad District in West Bengal
10 -- Water Quality and Human Health in Mewat: Challenges and Innovative SolutionsPART IV: Rapid Industrialisation, Water and Health; 11 -- Wastewater Use in Vegetable Production and Its Health Impacts: A Case of Faisalabad, Pakistan; 12 -- Role of Farmers in Protecting Groundwater in Lower Bhavani River Basin of Tamil Nadu, India; 13 -- Industrial Water Pollution and Health Implications: Emerging Issues from Tiruppur, Textile Town of South India; 14 -- Impact of Mining on Water and Human Health: A Case Study of Baitarani River Ecosystem in Orissa
PART V: Increasing Urbanisation and Water and Health15 -- Wastewater in Sri Lanka: Implications on Human Health; 16 -- Neglected Frontiers: Peri-urban Water Use and Human Health in the National Capital Region, India; 17 -- Results of Unplanned Programmes: Drinking Water and Sanitation System in Bhaktapur, Nepal; PART VI: Natural Disasters, Water and Health; 18 -- Inter-relation between Water, Health and Livelihood in Disasters; 19 -- Health Disasters: Tsunami-induced Public Health Crisis in India; Glossary; About the Editors and Contributors; Index
Summary An increasing recognition of the need to understand the complex systems in the health sector has raised the demand for an examination of water and health from a systemic perspective. Analyzing the various discourses on the subject, the volume revolves around this central question: What are the linkages between water and health in South Asia?. The interlacing of water and health exists wherever human health is adversely affected, directly or indirectly, by changes in the quality and quantity of water. These adverse effects are linked with poverty, environment and infrastructure in the overall s
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Subject Water-supply -- Health aspects -- South Asia -- Case studies
Drinking water -- Health aspects -- South Asia
Water -- Pollution -- Health aspects -- South Asia
Water-supply -- Economic aspects -- South Asia
Sanitary engineering -- South Asia
Water-supply.
Sanitary engineering.
Water Supply
Sanitary Engineering
sanitary engineering.
TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING -- Environmental -- Water Supply.
Water-supply -- Health aspects
South Asia
Genre/Form Case studies
Form Electronic book
Author Anjal Prakash
Chourey, Jayati
ISBN 9788132109822
8132109821