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 randomized controlled trial of household-based flocculant-disinfectant drinking water treatment for diarrhea prevention in rural Guatemala. 
  • Access to Household Water Quality Information Leads to Safer Water: A Cluster Randomized Controlled Trial in india. 
  • Amebiasis in a mental institution: serologic and epidemiologic studies. 
  • 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. 
  • 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. 
  • 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. 
  • City-scale analysis of water-related energy identifies more cost-effective solutions. 
  • 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. 
  • Comparison of water-energy trajectories of two major regions experiencing water shortage. 
  • Contamination of rural surface and ground water by endosulfan in farming areas of the Western Cape, South Africa. 
  • Cumulative impacts of mountaintop mining on an Appalachian watershed. 
  • Diagnosis and management of surgical disease at Ethiopian health centres: cross-sectional survey of resources and barriers to care. 
  • Diarrheal Illness and Healthcare Seeking Behavior among a Population at High Risk for Diarrhea in Dhaka, Bangladesh. 
  • Direct observation of hygiene in a Peruvian shantytown: not enough handwashing and too little water. 
  • Discovery of Welcome Biopolymers in Surface Water: Improvements in Drinking Water Production. 
  • 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. 
  • Effect of point-of-use disinfection, flocculation and combined flocculation-disinfection on drinking water quality in western Kenya. 
  • 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. 
  • Life-cycle energy impacts for adapting an urban water supply system to droughts. 
  • 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. 
  • Outbreaks of waterborne disease in the United States, 1973. 
  • Peak grain forecasts for the US High Plains amid withering waters. 
  • 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. 
  • 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. 
  • 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. 
  • Site-scale Urban Water Mass Balance Assessment (SUWMBA) to quantify water performance of urban design-technology-environment configurations. 
  • Sources of salinity in ground water from Jericho area, Jordan Valley. 
  • Technologies for global health. 
  • The 1984 Hunter Oration. 
  • The International Atomic Energy Agency International Doubly Labelled Water Database: Aims, Scope and Procedures. 
  • 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. 
  • Understanding urban water performance at the city-region scale using an urban water metabolism evaluation framework. 
  • 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 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, Professor in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Civil and Environmental Engineering
  • Jeuland, Marc A., Associate Professor in the Sanford School of Public Policy, Duke University Energy Initiative
  • Sutherland, Sara A., Lecturer, Univ in the Sanford School of Public Policy, Sanford School of Public Policy