Evaluating WHO prescribed sanitary inspection templates for assessing contamination risks in tubewells with handpump - case of 9 Indian districts.

WHO prescribes Sanitary Inspections in recommended formats for assessing contamination risks in Tubewells installed with handpump that often constitute primary drinking water sources in rural and remote areas. Sanitary inspections are easy alternatives to costlier and technically demanding laboratory water quality analysis. However, their efficacy remains uncertain despite decades of widespread usage.

Performance Measurement of Water Supply Services: A Cross-Country Comparison between India and the UK.

Increased emphasis on efficiency improvements has brought the benefits of internal savings and improved service deliveries of water supplies to the developed countries. However, water supply services in developing countries often exhibit large inefficiencies making it difficult to expand coverage or improve supply services. A comparative assessment of efficiencies in the developed and developing countries is therefore essential to estimate the actual lag that developing countries typically experience, and to arrive at an estimate of their efficiency improvements.

Diseases associated with poor water and sanitation: hazards, prevention, and solutions.

This paper examines one of the most staggering challenges facing the mankind, the challenge to conquer diseases associated with poor water and sanitation. Although rapid strides have been made in the last decade of the last century to provide improved water supply and sanitation, the world is still rampant with diseases. More than 1.