Humanitarian engineering in Mylai Balaji Nagar: An integrated water, environment and public health project for slums in the Indian Subcontinent

Urban slum communities throughout the Indian subcontinent face critical challenges including inadequate access to safe water and environmental degradation, resulting in significant public health impacts. A research collaboration between Queen’s University and the Indian Institute of Technology (Madr...

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Published in:Desalination 2009-11, Vol.248 (1), p.418-427
Main Authors: Ali, S.I., Hall, K.R., Aronson, K., Philip, L.
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Applied sciences
Carbon monoxide
Communities
Economics
Environment
Exact sciences and technology
Indian
Participatory development
Point-of-use
Pollution
Public health
Safes
Slums
Systems management
Water quality
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Summary:Urban slum communities throughout the Indian subcontinent face critical challenges including inadequate access to safe water and environmental degradation, resulting in significant public health impacts. A research collaboration between Queen’s University and the Indian Institute of Technology (Madras) has been established on water, environment, and public health in slums, aiming to develop and evaluate technological and policy alternatives for sustainable safe water provision in slums. Point-of-use water quality treatment and detection techniques will be developed in the lab and then assessed for efficacy at controlling diarrhoeal and other water-borne diseases through a community-level integrated intervention in Mylai Balaji Nagar, Chennai, India. Reflecting the complexity of the issue, potential solutions must go beyond the technical to the social, economic, and political if they are to be sustainable; issues on water systems management will also be explored by the research collaboration.
ISSN:0011-9164
1873-4464
DOI:10.1016/j.desal.2008.05.083