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Water governance on the streets of Scotland: How frontline public workers encounter and respond to tensions in delivering water services with communities [PDF]

Environmental Policy and Governance, 2022
AbstractWe explore the activities of frontline workers situated in public bodies responsible for water service provision. We use Scotland as a case study. Here, like in other parts of Europe, there are greater expectations and responsibilities placed on communities to tackle water concerns. In this context, frontline workers are required to collaborate
Kirsty Holstead, Shona Russell, Kerry Waylen   +2 more
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Hepatitis A among workers from a waste water treatment plant during a small community outbreak. [PDF]

Occupational and Environmental Medicine, 1997
OBJECTIVE: This is a case report describing the occurrence of hepatitis A in three workers at a waste water treatment plant during a small community outbreak involving 16 cases. CASE REPORT: The first case was a 26 year old operator who had worked in the plant for two years, the second was a 23 year old employee hired to add new biolite in the ...
G, De Serres, D, Laliberté
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Sustained use in a relief-to-recovery household water chlorination program in Haiti: comparing external evaluation findings with internal supervisor and community health worker monitoring data [PDF]

Journal of Water, Sanitation and Hygiene for Development, 2017
After the January 2010 earthquake in Haiti, an existing development program promoting household water treatment with chlorine rapidly expanded and provided relief to 15,000 earthquake-affected households. Initially, 157 community health workers (CHWs) distributed chlorine tablets; ten months later, CHWs began selling locally manufactured solution.
Daniele Lantagne, Kenneth Chui, Jean Marcel Casimir, Michael Ritter, Emma Wells, Lauren Wilner   +5 more
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Community-Based Solutions to Local Water Challenges in Arizona

, 2020
Arizona’s communities, large and small, face water supply challenges that are distinct yet share common features. Communities throughout Arizona can learn from the experiences of their neighbors in tackling their own challenges.
University of Arizona. Water Resources Research Center., Eden, Susanna, Joiner, Emily   +2 more
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Exploring the Influence of Innovation Characteristics on the Adoption of a Water and Input Saving Technology in the Jordan Valley: Implications for Community Extension Workers

Journal of International Agricultural and Extension Education, 2018
As the world’s population is set to increase to an estimated 9.6 billion people, the greater the strain becomes on the food system to meet people’s food and nutrition needs (United Nations, 2013). The MENA region is expected to increase in population by double by 2050 further straining their water and food resources (IFPRI, 2010).
Mary T. Rodriguez, T. Grady Roberts, Amy Harder   +2 more
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Perceived water-related risk factors of Buruli ulcer in two villages of south-central Côte d'Ivoire.

PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases, 2022
BackgroundBuruli ulcer, caused by Mycobacterium ulcerans, is a neglected tropical skin disease that is primarily endemic in West and Central Africa, including Côte d'Ivoire. Studies indicate that M.
Andrea Leuenberger, Bognan V Koné, Raymond T A S N'krumah, Didier Y Koffi, Bassirou Bonfoh, Jürg Utzinger, Gerd Pluschke   +6 more
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Evaluation of Food Hygienic Practices Training on Knowledge, Attitude, and Practice: A Study on Traditional Rambak Production in Berkah Enterprise

Jurnal Ilmu dan Teknologi Hasil Ternak, 2023
Rambak (hide’s cracker) produced by small and medium-scale local communities still relies on production processes that have been passed down from generation to generation, resulting in minimal application of information and technology related to food ...
Adi Magna Patriadi Nuhriawangsa, Lilik Retna Kartikasari, Winny Swastike, Aqni Hanifa, Bayu Setya Hertanto   +4 more
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Risk of faecal pollution among waste handlers in a resource-deprived coastal peri-urban settlement in Southern Ghana.

PLoS ONE, 2020
Resource-deprived coastal peri-urban settlements in Southern Ghana are characterized by indiscriminate solid waste disposal and open defecation practices.
James-Paul Kretchy, Mawuli Dzodzomenyo, Irene Ayi, Duah Dwomoh, Kofi Agyabeng, Flemming Konradsen, Anders Dalsgaard   +6 more
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Determinants of latrine utilization in Munggur Village, Mojogedang District, Karanganyar Regency, Central Java [PDF]

E3S Web of Conferences, 2020
The use of latrines by the community will affect the incidence of ducts, such as diarrhea. The Karanganyar Regency Government has built communal latrines to reduce open defecation, however is not yet optimal and there are still many open defecation ...
Nurjazuli Nurjazuli, Joko Tri, Bela Saputri Anggi   +2 more
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Harmonization of research and control in schistosomiasis

Memorias do Instituto Oswaldo Cruz, 1992
I have been employed by several different organizations during over 30 years working on schistosomiasis, the majority spent in endemic areas of Caribean, South America, Africa and the Western Pacific.
R. F. Sturrock
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