Challenges in Supplying Safe Drinking Water in Rural Communities
A special issue of Water (ISSN 2073-4441). This special issue belongs to the section "Water Use and Scarcity".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (31 August 2020) | Viewed by 56426
Special Issue Editor
Interests: environmental health; stormwater; rural drinking water; Appalachia
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Dear Colleagues,
The geography, economics, and land-use in rural communities often render the provision of safe onsite or centralized drinking water challenging. Not surprisingly, rural regions in both the developed and developing world generally lag behind urban areas with regards to access to reliable infrastructure that can provide point of use drinking water for meeting national and global health standards. Without effective water treatment, rural communities are potentially more vulnerable to source water quality changes accompanying land-use changes, such as increased agricultural activity or resource extraction. This Issue aims to do the following: (1) critically discuss and examine the geographic and socio-economic challenges framing the development of a sustainable rural water infrastructure; (2) describe the waterborne exposome (i.e., microbial and chemical contaminants) of rural communities in a variety of national and climatic landscapes; and (3) propose potential innovative strategies and/or systems designs to improve access to reliable and high-quality water at point of use.
Assoc. Prof. Leigh-Anne Krometis
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- drinking water
- water quality
- health disparities
- rural communities
- rural health
- infrastructure
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