Water Supply

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  Subject Areas on Research

  • A novel cyanide ion sensing approach based on Raman scattering for the detection of environmental cyanides. 
  • A randomised intervention trial to assess two arsenic mitigation options in Bangladesh. 
  • A randomized controlled trial of household-based flocculant-disinfectant drinking water treatment for diarrhea prevention in rural Guatemala. 
  • A study of the effect of physical and chemical stressors on biological integrity within the San Diego hydrologic region. 
  • Abortion legislation, maternal healthcare, fertility, female literacy, sanitation, violence against women and maternal deaths: a natural experiment in 32 Mexican states. 
  • Access to Household Water Quality Information Leads to Safer Water: A Cluster Randomized Controlled Trial in india. 
  • Access to drinking-water and arsenicosis in Bangladesh. 
  • Amebiasis in a mental institution: serologic and epidemiologic studies. 
  • An environmental approach to correcting iodine deficiency: supplementing iodine in soil by iodination of irrigation water in remote areas. 
  • An outbreak of Shigella sonnei gastroenteritis on Colorado River raft trips. 
  • Aquatic risk assessment of a polycarboxylate dispersant polymer used in laundry detergents. 
  • Arsenic exposure to drinking water in the Mekong Delta. 
  • Assessment of iodine deficiency and goitre incidence in parts of Yewa Area of Ogun State, Southwestern Nigeria. 
  • Association between arsenic, cadmium, manganese, and lead levels in private wells and birth defects prevalence in North Carolina: a semi-ecologic study. 
  • Bacterial indicators of risk of diarrhoeal disease from drinking-water in the Philippines. 
  • Biomarkers of chronic fluoride exposure in groundwater in a highly exposed population. 
  • Biomonitoring recycled water in the Santa Ana River Basin in southern California. 
  • Chlorinated drinking water and bladder cancer: effect of misclassification on risk estimates. 
  • Chlorinated drinking water and micronuclei in urinary bladder epithelial cells. 
  • Cholera prevention with traditional and novel water treatment methods: an outbreak investigation in Fort-Dauphin, Madagascar. 
  • Chromium (VI) at plausible drinking water concentrations is not genotoxic in the in vivo bone marrow micronucleus or liver unscheduled DNA synthesis assays. 
  • Cohort studies of health effects among people exposed to estuarine waters: North Carolina, Virginia, and Maryland. 
  • Comparing serologic response against enteric pathogens with reported diarrhea to assess the impact of improved household drinking water quality. 
  • Contamination of rural surface and ground water by endosulfan in farming areas of the Western Cape, South Africa. 
  • Controls on groundwater nitrogen contributions from on-site wastewater systems in coastal North Carolina. 
  • Cumulative impacts of mountaintop mining on an Appalachian watershed. 
  • Direct observation of hygiene in a Peruvian shantytown: not enough handwashing and too little water. 
  • Drinking water disinfection by-product exposure and duration of gestation. 
  • Drinking water disinfection by-product exposure and fetal growth. 
  • Drinking water disinfection by-products and time to pregnancy. 
  • Dynamics of environmental supplementation of iodine: four years' experience of iodination of irrigation water in Hotien, Xinjiang, China. 
  • Dynamics of environmental supplementation of iodine: four years' experience of iodination of irrigation water in Hotien, Xinjiang, China. 
  • Effect of point-of-use disinfection, flocculation and combined flocculation-disinfection on drinking water quality in western Kenya. 
  • Effect on infant mortality of iodination of irrigation water in a severely iodine-deficient area of China. 
  • Enhanced formation of disinfection byproducts in shale gas wastewater-impacted drinking water supplies. 
  • Environmental impacts of the coal ash spill in Kingston, Tennessee: an 18-month survey. 
  • Epidemiology and risk factors for endemic typhoid fever in Uzbekistan. 
  • Epidemiology. Ensuring safe drinking water in Bangladesh. 
  • Exposure to drinking water disinfection by-products and pregnancy loss. 
  • Factors Associated with Water Service Continuity for the Rural Populations of Bangladesh, Pakistan, Ethiopia, and Mozambique. 
  • Fifty years to prove Malthus right. 
  • Fluoride exposure from groundwater as reflected by urinary fluoride and children's dental fluorosis in the Main Ethiopian Rift Valley. 
  • Forecasts of mortality and economic losses from poor water and sanitation in sub-Saharan Africa. 
  • Gastrointestinal illness on passenger cruise ships. 
  • Geochemical evidence for possible natural migration of Marcellus Formation brine to shallow aquifers in Pennsylvania. 
  • High naturally occurring radioactivity in fossil groundwater from the Middle East. 
  • Household based treatment of drinking water with flocculant-disinfectant for preventing diarrhoea in areas with turbid source water in rural western Kenya: cluster randomised controlled trial. 
  • How valuable are environmental health interventions? Evaluation of water and sanitation programmes in India. 
  • Identifying linkages between land use, geomorphology, and aquatic habitat in a mixed-use watershed. 
  • Intervention trial to assess arsenic exposure from food crops in Bangladesh. 
  • Methane contamination of drinking water accompanying gas-well drilling and hydraulic fracturing. 
  • Mobilization of arsenic and other naturally occurring contaminants in groundwater of the Main Ethiopian Rift aquifers. 
  • Nephrotoxic contaminants in drinking water and urine, and chronic kidney disease in rural Sri Lanka. 
  • Noble gases identify the mechanisms of fugitive gas contamination in drinking-water wells overlying the Marcellus and Barnett Shales. 
  • Occurrence and Sources of Radium in Groundwater Associated with Oil Fields in the Southern San Joaquin Valley, California. 
  • Of taps and toilets: quasi-experimental protocol for evaluating community-demand-driven projects. 
  • Outbreaks of Escherichia coli O157 infections at multiple county agricultural fairs: a hazard of mixing cattle, concession stands and children. 
  • Perchlorate exposure in lactating women in an urban community in New Jersey. 
  • Physical and economic potential of geological CO 2 storage in saline aquifers 
  • Physical, chemical, and mineralogical characteristics of a reservoir sediment delta (Lake Powell, U.S.A.) and implications for water quality during low water level. 
  • Predicting soil erosion for alternative land uses. 
  • Predictors of use and consumption of public drinking water among pregnant women. 
  • Prevalence of Cryptosporidium and Giardia in the water resources of the Kuang River catchment, Northern Thailand. 
  • Prices, infrastructure, household characteristics and child height. 
  • Private drinking water wells as a source of exposure to perfluorooctanoic acid (PFOA) in communities surrounding a fluoropolymer production facility. 
  • Processes of particle deposition in membrane operation and fabrication. 
  • Quantifying ground water inputs along the Lower Jordan River. 
  • Reaction products of aquatic humic substances with chlorine. 
  • Reduction in urinary arsenic levels in response to arsenic mitigation efforts in Araihazar, Bangladesh. 
  • Response to Comment on "High naturally occurring radioactivity in fossil groundwater from the Middle East". 
  • Responses of 6500 households to arsenic mitigation in Araihazar, Bangladesh. 
  • Salinity of deep groundwater in California: Water quantity, quality, and protection. 
  • Sampling out: regulatory avoidance and the Total Coliform Rule. 
  • Second moment method for evaluating human health risks from groundwater contaminated by trichloroethylene. 
  • Shigellosis at sea: an outbreak aboard a passenger cruise ship. 
  • Sources of salinity in ground water from Jericho area, Jordan Valley. 
  • THE NEED AND IMPORTANCE OF FRESH WATER FOR MANKIND. 
  • Technologies for global health. 
  • The 1984 Hunter Oration. 
  • The Depths of Hydraulic Fracturing and Accompanying Water Use Across the United States. 
  • The effect of arsenic mitigation interventions on disease burden in Bangladesh. 
  • The effect of non-fluoride factors on risk of dental fluorosis: evidence from rural populations of the Main Ethiopian Rift. 
  • The effect of water disinfection by-products on pregnancy outcomes in two southeastern US communities. 
  • The effect of water quality testing on household behavior: evidence from an experiment in rural India. 
  • The effects of drinking water service fragmentation on drought-related water security. 
  • The food and water system: impacts on obesity. 
  • The healthy men study: an evaluation of exposure to disinfection by-products in tap water and sperm quality. 
  • The healthy men study: design and recruitment considerations for environmental epidemiologic studies in male reproductive health. 
  • The long-term dynamics of mortality benefits from improved water and sanitation in less developed countries. 
  • The politics of assessment: water and sanitation MDGs in the Middle East. 
  • The water crisis in the gaza strip: prospects for resolution. 
  • Toward policies and decision-making for dam removal. 
  • Trading cases 
  • Unmet health needs identified by Haitian women as priorities for attention: a qualitative study. 
  • Variability and predictors of changes in water use during pregnancy. 
  • Water quality at points-of-use in the Galapagos Islands. 
  • Water quality perceptions and willingness to pay for clean water in peri-urban Cambodian communities. 
  • Water quality risks of 'improved' water sources: evidence from Cambodia. 
  • What is a stream? 
  • Why "improved" water sources are not always safe. 
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  Keywords of People

  • Hsu-Kim, Heileen, Sternberg Family Professor of Civil & Environmental Engineering, Civil and Environmental Engineering
  • Jeuland, Marc A., Associate Professor in the Sanford School of Public Policy, Duke University Energy Initiative