Reducing health risks from wastewater use in urban and peri-urban sub-Saharan Africa: Applying the 2006 WHO guidelines

Water Science and Technology

Volumn 57, Issue 9, 2008, Pages 1461-1466

  Drechsel, P ^a   Keraita, B ^a   Amoah, P ^a   Abaidoo, R C ^b   Raschid Sally, L ^a   Bahri, A ^a  

^a INTERNATIONAL WATER MANAGEMENT INSTITUTE   (Ghana)

^b KWAME NKRUMAH UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Ghana)

Author keywords

Africa; Health risk reduction; Non treatment options; Urban and peri urban agriculture; Vegetables; WHO guidelines

Indexed keywords

BIOCHEMICAL OXYGEN DEMAND; CANNING; CHEMICAL OXYGEN DEMAND; FARMS; FOOD PRESERVATION; IRRIGATION; RECLAMATION; REUSABILITY; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISKS; SUBIRRIGATION; WASHING; WASTEWATER; WASTEWATER RECLAMATION; WASTEWATER TREATMENT; WATER RECYCLING; WATER TREATMENT; WATER TREATMENT PLANTS;

DRIP IRRIGATION; ENTRY POINT; FOOD PREPARATION; IRRIGATION PRACTICES; LEAFY VEGETABLES; ON FARM TRIALS; POTENTIAL RISKS; RISK REDUCTION (RR); RISK REDUCTION MEASURES; SUB-SAHARAN AFRICA (SSA); WATER SOURCES;

HEALTH RISKS;

DRIP IRRIGATION; HEALTH RISK; LEAFY VEGETABLE; SANITATION; URBAN AREA; URBANIZATION; WASTEWATER; WATER TREATMENT; WATER USE; WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION;

AFRICA SOUTH OF THE SAHARA; ARTICLE; ENVIRONMENTAL SANITATION; FOOD PROCESSING; HEALTH EDUCATION; HEALTH HAZARD; HUMAN; IRRIGATION (AGRICULTURE); RISK REDUCTION; URBANIZATION; WASTE WATER MANAGEMENT;

AFRICA SOUTH OF THE SAHARA; AGRICULTURE; CITIES; GUIDELINES AS TOPIC; WASTE DISPOSAL, FLUID; WATER POLLUTION; WATER PURIFICATION; WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION;

AFRICA; GHANA; SUB-SAHARAN AFRICA; WEST AFRICA;

EID: 45549088145     PISSN: 02731223     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.2166/wst.2008.245     Document Type: Article

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