Hygiene knowledge and practices in the Lagos wild meat value chain: Cultural influences, regulatory gaps, and infrastructure needs. [PDF]
PLOS Glob Public HealthWild meat, commonly known as bushmeat, is a cultural, economic, and nutritional staple food in many regions of the world, including sub-Saharan Africa. Wild meat value chains face major hygiene and sanitary regulation challenges, but only a few studies ...
Akpan SN +10 more
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Microbial Contamination of Handwashing Water and Tap Surfaces in Addis Ababa Hospitals: A Threat to Infection Prevention. [PDF]
Environ Health InsightsIntroduction: Hand hygiene is a cornerstone of infection prevention; however, the water and infrastructure used for handwashing can themselves become sources of microbial contamination.
Melaku A, Abate TA, Ambelu A.
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Public sanitation interventions and household clean energy adoption: Evidence from China's renovating water supply and toilets. [PDF]
PLoS OneBy 2021, approximately 2.3 billion people worldwide still relied on polluting fuels and technologies for cooking. Such harmful fuels pose serious risks to both health and the environment, contributing to health issues and constraining economic activities.
Wang P, Liu L.
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Assessment of sanitation facilities in primary healthcare institutions across seven provinces in China: a cross-sectional study. [PDF]
BMC Public HealthObjective This study aims to assess the current status of sanitation facilities across primary healthcare institutions in China, offering valuable insights for improving sanitary facilities in middle-income settings.
Huang Z +6 more
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Analysis of NQI technology integration and application status of building sanitary ceramics industry [PDF]
E3S Web of Conferences, 2020 Based on the National Quality (National Quality Infrastructure, NQI) theoretical connotation as the instruction, this paper analyzes the domestic building sanitary ceramics industry key generic NQI technology integration and application of the status quo,
Yibing Tan
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Frontiers in Environmental Science, 2022 In 2018 the European Union has recognized wastewater as a renewable energy source, particularly due to its thermal energy content. To create and further develop knowledge on the possible role that wastewater could play in the energy transition, this ...
Georg Neugebauer +4 more
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A Safety Assessment for Consumers of Water Using Logical Trees
Applied Sciences, 2022 The lack of biochemical stability in drinking water increases the secondary contamination risk in water supply systems and hence represents a sanitary threat to consumers. The work presented here assesses the likelihood of such risk.
Barbara Tchórzewska-Cieślak +5 more
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Air, Soil and Water Research, 2020 Daily, a big extent of colored, partially treated textile effluents drained into the sanitation systems causing serious environmental concerns. Therefore, the decolorization treatment process of wastewater is crucial to improve effluent quality.
Ahmed Karam +2 more
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Unsaturated seepage analysis for an ordinary solid waste sanitary landfill in Costa Rica [PDF]
E3S Web of Conferences, 2023 Sanitary Landfills in tropical areas are subjected to specific conditions such as high temperatures, intense precipitation, and highly organic solid waste with high biodegradation rates.
Baltodano-Goulding Rafael +1 more
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An Overview of the Technological Advancement of Wastewater Treatment for Effluent Reuse in South Africa: a Meta-Analysis [PDF]
آب و فاضلابSouth Africa's water resources have experienced significant negative effects resulting from poor quality effluent, posing a substantial threat to public health. The main aim of this study was to evaluate the existing technological condition of wastewater
Terry Takalani Phungela +6 more
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