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Taxonomy Archive: water
20 Apr 2018 |
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Banking on Green: A Look at How Green Infrastructre Can Save Municipalities Money and Provide Economic Benefits Community-wide
The impacts of stormwater pollution and the need to provide stormwater prevention, management, and treatment all create costs for communities and their residents. These costs can often be offset or reduced by making different choices about how we build communities and infrastructure. By incorporating “green infrastructure” ...
20 Apr 2018 |
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Climate Change and Water: Impacts to Human Health and Consumption
Climate change can exacerbate existing vulnerabilities in terms of water resources and the ability of infrastructure to cope with shocks (caused by increased variability of weather events). However, how such shocks translate into impacts on health and well-being is rather complex. One of the aims of this paper is to examine the ...
20 Apr 2018 |
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Challenges in predicting the effects of climate change on Schistosoma mansoni and Schistosoma haematobium transmission potential
Climate change will inevitably influence both the distribution of Schistosoma mansoni and Schistosoma haematobium and the incidence of schistosomiasis in areas where it is currently endemic, and impact on the feasibility of schistosomiasis control and elimination goals. There are several limitations of current models of climate and ...
20 Apr 2018 |
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Climate change impacts on water salinity and health
It is estimated that 884 million people do not have access to clean drinking water in the world. Increasing salinity of natural drinking water sources has been reported as one of the many problems that affect low-income countries, but one which has not been fully explored. This problem is exacerbated by rising sea-levels, owing to ...
20 Apr 2018 |
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Direct and indirect effects of climate change on the risk of infection by water-transmitted pathogens
Climate change is likely to affect the infectious disease burden from exposure to pathogens in water used for drinking and recreation. Effective intervention measures require quantification of impacts of climate change on the distribution of pathogens in the environment and their potential effects on human health. Objectives of this ...
20 Apr 2018 |
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Extreme water-related weather events and waterborne disease
Global climate change is expected to affect the frequency, intensity and duration of extreme water-related weather events such as excessive precipitation, floods, and drought. We conducted a systematic review to examine waterborne outbreaks following such events and explored their distribution between the different types of extreme ...
20 Apr 2018 |
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Exposure to multiple metals from groundwater-a global crisis: geology, climate change, health effects, testing, and mitigation
This paper presents an overview of the global extent of naturally occurring toxic metals in groundwater. Adverse health effects attributed to the toxic metals most commonly found in groundwater are reviewed, as well as chemical, biochemical, and physiological interactions between these metals. Synergistic and antagonistic effects ...
20 Apr 2018 |
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The challenge of health & environment: profiling risks & strategic priorities for now & the future
A substantial burden of communicable and non-communicable diseases in the developing countries is attributable to environmental risk factors. WHO estimates that the environmental factors are responsible for an estimated 24 per cent of the global burden of disease in terms of healthy life years lost and 23 per cent of all deaths; ...
20 Apr 2018 |
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Adapting Urban Water Systems to Climate Change: A handbook for decision makers at the local level
This handbook on adaptation of urban water systems to climate change is an initiative of the SWITCH project and the result of collaboration between ICLEI – Local Governments for Sustainability, the International Water Association (IWA) and the UNESCO-IHE Institute for Water Education. It draws on the research and findings from the ...
20 Apr 2018 |
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Don’t Eat Your Children’s Food
The Dietary Guidelines Advisory Committee issued what I consider to be a truly stellar, 572-page report. We are now in a period of cogitation, consideration and commentary during which everyone with skin in the game gets to tell the U.S. Department of Agriculture why they should embrace or renounce specific elements in the report.