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Domestic Water Treatment for Developing Countries

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Drinking Water Microbiology

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Nearly 75% of the present global population lives in the developing parts of the world and since the rate of increase in the population in many such areas is also higher than that in industrialized countries, the share of the Third World population will have increased to almost 80% by the year 2000 (WHO,* 1981). Moreover, many developing regions either suffer from chronic shortages of fresh water or the readily accessible water resources available there are heavily polluted, mainly with domestic wastes. The larger proportion of the population in developing countries lives in rural and suburban areas (WHO, 1981) and conventionally treated drinking water is generally unavailable in such settings. Even though urban centers in these countries have centralized facilities for conventional treatment of drinking water, the quality of such treated water is often suspect, either because of improper treatment or as a result of its contamination during distribution or storage. This lack of sufficient quantities of fresh water, and the consumption of unsafe water, are known to be responsible for a large proportion of the disease burden in these regions (Briscoe, 1987; Esrey and Habicht, 1986; Grant, 1987). Therefore, provision of adequate quantities of safe water for the growing population of the developing world has become a challenging task. As shown in Table 8.1, the International Drinking Water Supply and Sanitation Decade (IDWSSD), which was launched in 1981, is aimed at addressing this problem (Deck, 1986; Lowes, 1987).

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  1. Department of Civil Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur, India

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Chaudhuri, M., Sattar, S.A. (1990). Domestic Water Treatment for Developing Countries. In: McFeters, G.A. (eds) Drinking Water Microbiology. Brock/Springer Series in Contemporary Bioscience. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4612-4464-6_8

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