Use of household water treatment and safe storage methods in acute emergency response: Case study results from Nepal, Indonesia, Kenya, and Haiti

Environmental Science and Technology

Volumn 46, Issue 20, 2012, Pages 11352-11360

  Lantagne, Daniele S ^a,b   Clasen, Thomas F ^a  

^a LONDON SCHOOL OF HYGIENE AND TROPICAL MEDICINE   (United Kingdom)

^b Tufts University   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CONTAMINATED WATER; EMERGENCY RESPONSE; FECAL INDICATORS; FREE CHLORINE; HOUSEHOLD WATER; INDONESIA; MICROBIOLOGICAL QUALITY; PROGRAM EVALUATION; SAFE STORAGE;

CHLORINE; PHASE TRANSITIONS;

WATER POLLUTION;

CHLORINE; DRINKING WATER;

CHLORINATION; DRINKING WATER; HOUSEHOLD SURVEY; MICROBIAL ACTIVITY; WATER QUALITY; WATER TREATMENT;

ARTICLE; CHLORINATION; ESCHERICHIA COLI; HAITI; HEATING; HOUSEHOLD; INDONESIA; KENYA; NEPAL; NONHUMAN; WATER ANALYSIS; WATER CONTAMINATION; WATER QUALITY; WATER SAMPLING; WATER TREATMENT;

DISASTERS; DRINKING WATER; FAMILY CHARACTERISTICS; HAITI; INDONESIA; KENYA; NEPAL; WATER PURIFICATION; WATER QUALITY; WATER SUPPLY;

HAITI; INDONESIA; KENYA; NEPAL;

EID: 84870021441     PISSN: 0013936X     EISSN: 15205851     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/es301842u     Document Type: Article

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