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Interstate Sanitation Commission Report on the Water Pollution Control Activities and the Interstate Air Pollution Program: 1984 Report

open access: yes, 1984
The Interstate Sanitation Commission was created in 1936 by a compact between the states of New York and New Jersey with the purpose of treating and preventing water pollution in the tidal waters of the New York Metropolitan Area. Connecticut joined the

core   +1 more source

Australia's Migration Strategy: An Effective Response to Migrant Worker Exploitation?

open access: yesAustralian Journal of Social Issues, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT A series of publicised migrant worker injuries and deaths has drawn attention to the issue of migrant worker exploitation (MWE) in Australia. In response, the Australian Government has included ‘Tackling Worker Exploitation’ as a key area of its Migration Strategy which it introduced in 2023. However, it is unclear how effective the Strategy’s
Evelyn Dowling, Alexandra Ridgway
wiley   +1 more source

Contribution of wastewater-based epidemiology to SARS-CoV-2 screening in Brazil and the United States

open access: yesJournal of Water and Health, 2023
Wastewater-based epidemiology (WBE) is a valuable tool for investigating the existence, prevalence, and spread of pathogens, such as SARS-CoV-2, in a given population.
Taciane Barbosa Henriques   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

Scaling Up Rural Sanitation : Partnering on the Road Towards Achieving Total Sanitation in East Africa

open access: yes, 2011
In 2000, the United Nations Development Program set a Millennium Development Goal (MDG) to reduce, by half, the number of people without access to basic sanitation by 2015. In 2008, when projections showed that
World Bank
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Embedding Chemistry and Pharmacy Into Sustainability

open access: yesAngewandte Chemie International Edition, EarlyView.
Chemistry and pharmacy provide products and processes that are indispensable for our high living standard. To understand their relationship with sustainability is important to allow them to contribute to sustainability in a sustainable manner. An integrated overview of green, circular, and sustainable chemistry and pharmacy is given and how they have t
Klaus Kümmerer
wiley   +1 more source

Benchmarking Local Government Performance on Rural Sanitation : Learning from Himachal Pradesh, India

open access: yes, 2010
Open defecation is a traditional behavior in rural India. Conventional rural sanitation programs have been based on the assumption that people defecate in the open because they are too poor to afford the
World Bank
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Pearl's causality for integrating ecological datasets: A case study on Myricaria germanica in northern Italy

open access: yesApplications in Plant Sciences, EarlyView.
Abstract Premise Applied ecology can significantly influence policy decisions on environmental issues. Therefore, research in this field should be as transparent and reproducible as possible. Existing expertise from a broad range of disciplines should also be integrated into ecological research to allow researchers to maximize understanding of complex ...
Kailin Weitkämper   +5 more
wiley   +1 more source

Potentially Toxic Elements’ Accumulation and Health Risk of Consuming Vegetables Cultivated along the Accra-Tema Motorway

open access: yesJournal of Chemistry
Vegetables cultivated close to highways have the potential to accumulate potentially toxic elements (PTEs), either through uptake from contaminated soil or via atmospheric deposition from vehicular emissions, and pose health risks when ingested by humans.
Ebenezer Boahen   +5 more
doaj   +1 more source

Unleashing capacity in the water sector: A framework for public entities

open access: yesWater Policy
Capacity development in the water sector is crucial to achieving universal, sustainable, and resilient services. It has been broadly recognized as a priority, connected with governance of water resources and water and sanitation services.
Alejandro Jiménez   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

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