Water and Sanitation and Public Health Issues in Delhi
| Autor: | Ajit Kumar Lenka, Golak B. Patra |
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| Rok vydání: | 2016 |
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Sanitation
business.industry 0211 other engineering and technologies Waterborne diseases Water supply 021107 urban & regional planning 02 engineering and technology Population health 010501 environmental sciences medicine.disease 01 natural sciences Environmental health medicine Open defecation Water quality Improved sanitation business Disease burden 0105 earth and related environmental sciences |
| Zdroj: | Marginalization in Globalizing Delhi: Issues of Land, Livelihoods and Health ISBN: 9788132235811 |
| DOI: | 10.1007/978-81-322-3583-5_22 |
| Popis: | India has more than one billion people who live in different ecological, social and cultural regions. Providing safe water and improved sanitation to such a large and diverse population is a challenge. Socio-economic development, education, poverty, awareness, and practice of rituals add to the complexity of providing water and sanitation; and consequent to good health of people. Around 5 million people die due to waterborne diseases annually. More than 1.5 million children are estimated to die of diarrhoea alone each year in India. In developing countries, some 2.6 billion people invest a significant proportion of their household time or money in securing drinking water or a private space to defecate. Over 9 % of the global disease burden could be prevented by better management of water, that is, supply, conservation and sanitation. Water is fundamental to addressing diarrhoea, cholera, malaria control, Guinea worm eradication; and non-communicable conditions such as fluorosis, arsenicosis, hydration-related effects and exposure to modern pollutants. Public health perspective in water management provides opportunities to improve population health and reduce costs. Accessing drinking water continues to be a problem for more than 32 % households even today in India. Despite an estimated total of Rs. 1,105 billion spent on providing safe drinking water since the First Five Year Plan was launched in 1951, lack of safe and secure drinking water continues to be a major economic burden. In 2000 water quality monitoring was accorded a high priority. The Government of India launched the National Rural Drinking Water Quality Monitoring and Surveillance Programme (NRWQMSP) in February 2006. This paper endeavours to examine the status of water supply to the vulnerable populations in the slums of Delhi and the challenges involved between different stakeholders on water management. It includes the quality of water supplied and events of illnesses with probable association to water quality. |
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