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Summary: Publisher Summary 1 This comprehensive reference covers a variety of topics related to water and sanitation-related diseases: conditions responsible for them, the pathogens involved and their biological makeup, morbidity and mortality from the absence of safe water and sanitation, and disease distribution. The experts enlisted for the book also discuss what must be done to eliminate or at least reduce them. Primary section titles include: defining the problem, water and sanitation-related diseases, water resources, sanitation and hygiene, current and future trends in water pollution prevention, and emerging issues in the environment, ecology, and disease. The book is well-written and includes extensive references and a DVD-ROM. Editor Selendy (chair, Horizon International) and 59 co-authors contributed to the book. Annotation 漏2011 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com) Publisher Summary 2 Written by authorities from various related specialties, this book presents the most complete treatment possible of the conditions responsible for water- and sanitation-related diseases, the pathogens and their biology, morbidity and mortality resulting from lack of safe water and sanitation, distribution of these diseases, and the conditions that must be met to reduce or eradicate them. Preventive measures and solutions are presented throughout. This book is an essential resource for all graduate students, postdoctoral scholars, and professionals in infectious disease, public health and medicine, chemical and environmental engineering, and international affairs.Key features:Provides a comprehensive understanding of the interconnection among many factors related to water-related diseases, sanitation and hygieneBrings together experts from various specialties to address each area covered and to assist in bringing about the understanding of those interconnectionsProvides examples of successful interventions with knowledge about how they were brought about so that information can be use to replicate the initiative in full or in partProvides an appreciation of the concerns and solutions addressed from an international perspective with high and low technological solutionsProvides insight into the international dimension of these concerns and how they can be best addressed

Table Of Contents:
Preface ix
Contributors xi
Introduction xv

Janine M.H. Selendy

Jens Aargaard-Hansen
Section I Defining The Problem 1(44)

1 Tackling the Water Crisis: A Continuing Need to Address Spatial and Social Equity 3(14)

Jay Graham

2 Sanitation and Hygiene: Taking Stock After Three Decades 17(12)

Jay Graham

3 Water and Health: The Demographic Background 29(12)

Robert Wyman

4 Water and War: Averting Armed Conflict and Protecting Human Rights 41(4)

Barry S. Levy

Victor W. Sidel
Section II Water And Sanitation-Related Diseases 45(172)

5 Infectious Diarrhea 47(24)

Sean Fitzwater

Al'Una Chanciran

Margaret Kosek

Mcithuram Santosluun

6 Malnutrition and Undernutrition 71(10)

Jeffrey K. Griffiths

7 Soil-Transmitted Helminths: Ascaris, Trichuris, and Hookworm Infections 81(14)

Brian G. Blackburn

Michele Barry

8 Toxic Cyanobacteria 95(16)

Ian Stewart

Wayne W. Carmichael

Lorraine C. Backer

9 Dengue: A Water-Borne Disease 111(14)

Scott B. Halstead

10 Dracunculiasis (Guinea Worm Disease): Case Study of the Effort to Eradicate Guinea Worm 125(8)

Donald R. Hopkins

Ernesto Ritif-Tiben

11 Onchocerciasis 133(18)

Adrian Hopkins

Boakye A. Boalin

12 Reassessing Multiple-Intervention Malaria Control Programs of the Past: Lessons for the Design of Contemporary Interventions 151(16)

Burton H. Singer

Marcia C. Castro

13 Schistosomiasis 167(8)

Pascal Magnussen

Birgitte Jyding Vennervald

Jens Aagaard-Hansen

14 Trachoma 175(12)

Joseph A. Cook

Silvio P. Mariotti

15 Shigellosis 187(18)

Michael L. Bennish

M. John Albert

16 The Zimbabwe Cholera Epidemic of 2008-2009 205(6)

Edward Dodge

17 Infectious Disease Control in Ghana: Government's Interventions and Challenges to Malaria Eradication 211(6)

Julius N. Fobil

Juergen May

Alexander Kraemer
Section III Water Resources 217(24)

18 Household Water Treatment and Safe Storage in Low-Income Countries 219(12)

Thomas F. Clasen

19 Informal Small-Scale Water Services in Developing Countries: The Business of Water for Those without Formal Municipal Connections 231(10)

Laura Sima

Menachem Elanelech
Section IV Sanitation And Hygiene 241(28)

20 The Sanitation Challenge in India 243(8)

Bindeshwar Pathak

21 Successful Sanitation Projects in Thailand, Malaysia, and Singapore 251(6)

Jay P. Graham

22 Household-Centered Environmental Sanitation Systems 257(12)

Bindeshwar Pathak
Section V Environmental Factors Of Water Pollution 269(68)

23 Naturally Occurring Water Pollutants 271(18)

Lorraine C. Backer

Jonathan K. Kish

Helena M. Solo-Gabriele

Lora E. Fleming

24 Anthropogenic Sources of Water Pollution: Parts 1 and 2 289(14)

Kerry L. Shannon

Robert S. Lawrence

M. Danielle McDonald

25 The Hudson River: A Case Study of PCB Contamination 303(26)

David O. Carpenter

Gretchen Welfinger-Stnith

26 Other Water Pollutants: Antibiotic-Resistant Bacteria 329(8)

Amy R. Sapkota
Section VI Current And Future Trends In Preventing Water Pollution 337(52)

27 Controlling Water Pollutants 339(12)

Jeffery A. Foran

28 Global Substitution of Mercury-Based Medical Devices in the Health Sector 351(8)

Joshua Karliner

Peter Orris

29 Addressing Sources of PCBs and Other Chemical Pollutants in Water 359(26)

Gretchen Welfinger-Smith

David O. Carpenter

30 Additional Measures to Prevent, Ameliorate, and Reduce Water Pollution and Related Water Diseases: Global Water Governance 385(4)

Nikhil Chandavarkar
Section VII Emerging Issues In Ecology, Environment, And Disease 389(72)

31 Changing Geographic Distribution of Disease Vectors 391(10)

Mary E. Wilson

32 Malaria in the Brazilian Amazon 401(20)

Marcia C. Castro

Burton H. Singer

33 Ecosystem Services, Water Resource Development, and Human Infectious Disease 421(18)

Uriel N. Safriel

34 Ocean Pollution: Health and Environmental Impacts of Brominated Flame Retardants 439(22)

Susan D. Shaw

Kurunthachalam Kannan
Section VIII Conclusion 461(24)

35 Assessment of Progress in Meeting the UN Millennium Development Goals 463(12)

Gretchen Loeffler Peltier

Unni Krishnan Karunakara

Anson Elisabeth Wright

36 Extending the Right to Health Care and Improving Child Survival in Mexico 475(6)

Julio Frenk

Octavio G贸mez-Dant茅s

37 Using Kinship Structures in Health Programming鈥擜n Example of Preventive Measures and Successful Interventions 481(4)

Moses N. Katabarwa
Index 485

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