Water Purification

This paper published in the journal Tropical Medicine and International Health describes the findings of the study conducted by the National Institute of Virology, Pune, that aimed at evaluating the performance of domestic water purification units with respect to contaminating enteric viruses.

Consumption of microbiologically contaminated water can lead to a range of bacterial diseases such as amoebiasis, cryptosporidiosis, giardiasis, leptospirosis, legionellosis, campylobacteriosis, cholera, typhoid, paratyphoid, gastroenteritis and viral infections such as hepatitis A, hepatitis E, diarrhoea as well as several enteroviral diseases.Read More

This comprehensive mission document by the Ministry of Water Resources (MoWR) highlights the objective of the National Water Mission, which is to conserve water through minimising wastage and ensuring equitable distribution of water across and within states through integrated water resources development and management. The document is presented in two volumes.Read More

This field report describes the work of WaterHealth India (WHI), in organising safe drinking water using low-cost water purification units, in several villages of Andhra Pradesh. The work was taken up with financial support from IFMR Trust.Read More

Vinjinampadu village in Guntur district, Andhra Pradesh, is one of the villages where WHI worked to establish the unit. The village had lacked potable water supply, because of which its people suffered from a range of water-borne diseases. The situation was similar in many of the other villages in which WHI initiated this work.

This document by Reach Out Water Solutions (ROWS) highlights the daily reality of people living in the slums of Mumbai and the inadequate water supply available to the 10 million slum residents to meet their daily requirements.

It presents a business plan, namely the Slum Water Programme (SWP) that proposes a comprehensive, community driven, decentralised programme to meet the water needs of the slum community.

The programme proposes to do this in three ways:Read More

• Firstly, by dealing with the problem of inadequate supply of water to the slum residents by the municipality, through increasing the availability of water
• By providing improved quality of water through utilising water purification techniques
• Improving access to water by making it available at the doorstep