Water and Sanitation–Related Diseases and the Changing Environment: Challenges, Interventions, and Preventive Measures

The authoritative guide to water and sanitation related diseases, with many revised, updated and new chapters, accompanies the First Edition

Augmenting authoritativeinterdisciplinary coverage in the first edition, this new edition of Water and Sanitation Related Diseases and the Changing Environmentexpands upon the significance of the changing environment to disease vectors, food systems and nutrition, and population, and the importance of ecosystem health to human health.  Many chapters stand as they are in first edition to which readers are referred, and which are not included in this volume.

The books were written by 75 experts from the fields of climate change, environmental engineering, environmental health, epidemiology, food and agriculture, global health, medicine, medical anthropology, nutrition, population, and public health. The authors discuss international conditions responsible for diseases that result from a lack of safe water and sanitation including pollutants and other interconnected environmental factors. The authors discuss the pathogens, vectors, and their biology, morbidity and mortality that result from a lack of safe water and sanitation. The text also explores the distribution of these diseases and the conditions that must be met to reduce or eliminate them.  The authors cover access to and maintenance of clean water, sanitation and hygiene (WASH) and guidelines for the safe use of wastewater, excreta, and grey water, plus examples of solutions.  This important guide:

Offers an understanding of the interconnection among many water–related diseases, sanitation, and hygiene (WASH) factors. Provides an appreciation of the concerns and most recent solutions addressed from an international perspective. Provides strategies for securing safe water, sanitation, and hygiene. Is filled with compelling examples of successful interventions and how they were accomplished such as the near eradication of Guinea worm disease.

Written for students and professionals in public health and medicine, chemical and environmental engineering, and international affairs, and for decision–makers and corporate leaders, this new edition of Water and Sanitation Related Diseases and the Changing Environment isa comprehensive resource that complements the first edition.

FOREWORD
Paul Farmer 

PREFACE
Janine M. H. Selendy 

INTRODUCTION
Janine M. H. Selendy and Jens Aagaard–Hansen

SECTION I: WATER, SANITATION AND HYGIENE: MEETING THE NEED

1. Toward Universal Access to Basic and Safely Managed Drinking Water: Remaining Challenges and New Opportunities in the Era of Sustainable Development Goals
Mitsuaki Hirai and Jay P. Graham     

2. The Human Right to Sanitation 
Anoop Jain and Jay P. Graham   

3. Coping with Water Needs: The Demographic Future
Guigui Yao and Robert Wyman  

4. Water, Food, and the Environment
Robert Wyman and Guigui Yoa   

5. Water and Armed Conflict 
Barry S. Levy    

6. Additional Measures To Prevent, Ameliorate And Reduce Water Pollution and Related Water Diseases: Global Water Governance
Nikhil Chandavarkar     
 
SECTION II: WATER AND SANITATION–RELATED DISEASES

7. Infectious Diarrhea
Sean Fitzwater, Anita Shet, Mathuram Santosham, and Margaret Kosek  

8. Soil–Transmitted Helminths: Ascaris, Trichuris, and Hookworm Infections
Alexander T. Yu and Brian G. Blackburn   

9. Food Systems and Nutrition, In The Context of Climate Change
José Graziano da Silva  

10. Malaria in the Brazilian Amazon: New Understanding and Directions for Intervention  
Marcia Castro and Burton H Singer  

11. Schistosomiasis
Pascal Magnussen, Birgitte Jyding Vennervald, and Jens Aagaard–Hansen  

12. Trachoma
Emma M. Harding–Esch, Joseph A. Cook, David C. Mabey, Anthony W. Solomon
  
SECTION III: ANTHROPOGENIC AND NATURALLY OCCURRING POLLUTANTS

13. Impacts of Pharmaceuticals and Personal Care Products in the Environment
M. Danielle McDonald  

14. Other Water Pollutants: Antibiotic–Resistant Bacteria
Rochelle Rainey

15. Global Substitution of Mercury–based Medical Devices in the Health Sector
Anitha Nimmagadda, Ivorie Stanley, Joshua Karliner, and Peter Orris  
 
SECTION IV: WATER TREATMENT AND SAFE STORAGE

16. Household Water Treatment and Safe Storage in Low–Income Countries
Thomas F. Clasen  

SECTION V:  CLIMATE CHANGE AND HUMAN HEALTH

17. Changing Geographic Distribution of Disease Vectors 
Mary E. Wilson    

18. Reassessing Multiple–Intervention Malaria Control Programs of the Past: Lessons for the Design of Contemporary Interventions
Burton H. Singer and Marcia C. Castro

19. Ecosystem Health as The Basis for Human Health
Tom Barker and Jane Fisher  

20. Addressing the Nexus of Water, Sanitation, Health and Climate Change Through Multistakeholder Partnerships
Nikhil Chandavarkar     

SECTION VI: SUCCESS STORIES

21. Extending the Right to Health Care and Improving Child Survival in Mexico
Julio Frenk and Octavio Gómez–Dantés  

22. Dracunculiasis (Guinea worm disease): Case Study of the Effort to Eradicate Guinea Worm  
Donald R. Hopkins and Ernesto Ruiz–Tiben  

23. Sanitation Case Studies
Anoop Jain and Jay P. Graham

24. Catalyzing Rural Sanitation at Scale: Lessons Learned from The Global Sanitation Fund
Carolien Van der Voorden and Patrick England

AFTERWORD
Wafaie Fawzi
 
INDEX

Janine M. H. Selendy, Co–Chair, Founder and Publisher, Horizon International, Yale University, New Haven, USA.