The social ecology of water in a Mumbai slum: Failures in water quality, quantity, and reliability

BMC Public Health

Volumn 13, Issue 1, 2013, Pages

  Subbaraman, Ramnath ^a,b   Shitole, Shrutika ^a   Shitole, Tejal ^a   Sawant, Kiran ^a   Obrien, Jennifer ^c   Bloom, David E ^c   Patil Deshmukh, Anita ^a  

^a Partners for Urban Knowledge Action and Research (PUKAR)   (India)

^b BRIGHAM AND WOMEN S HOSPITAL   (United States)

^c HARVARD SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

Author keywords

Coliform bacteria; Contamination; Diarrhea; E. coli; Household water treatment; India; Safe storage; Urban slums; Water quality; Water quantity

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; FAMILY SIZE; HEALTH; HUMAN; INDIA; MICROBIOLOGY; NEEDS ASSESSMENT; POVERTY; SEASON; SOCIOECONOMICS; STANDARD; STATISTICS; WATER QUALITY; WATER SUPPLY;

FAMILY CHARACTERISTICS; HUMANS; INDIA; NEEDS ASSESSMENT; POVERTY AREAS; SEASONS; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS; URBAN HEALTH; WATER MICROBIOLOGY; WATER QUALITY; WATER SUPPLY;

MLCS; MLOWN;

EID: 84874200179     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712458     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2458-13-173     Document Type: Article

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