The Program on Water, Health and Development will address pressing research needs related to non-networked water supply and sanitation service delivery; enhance capacity within developing countries for sustainable water and wastewater management; establish long-term partnerships so that research is translated into practice; and offer unique training and learning opportunities for faculty and students at Stanford and partner institutions.
Each year, diarrhea kills an estimated 1.8 million people worldwide, the vast majority children under the age of five. What makes the problem especially tragic is that it is preventable. Diarrhea is a symptom of several diseases caused by water, food or hands contaminated with human feces. These gastrointestinal illnesses are common in developing countries where people lack access to clean water or sanitation. Globally, about one billion people do not have adequate freshwater supplies, and 2.8 billion lack basic sanitation.
Researchers are initiating activities in Cambodia, Mozambique, and Tanzania as first-stage locations, both because of the pressing need and because of the strong partnerships that exist between Stanford faculty and collaborators in these countries.
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Cambodia: Researchers will work with our local partners to identify approaches for serving non-networked populations who are at risk of arsenic poisoning. This project will build upon existing research underway by the Fendorf research team. Learn more…
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Mozambique: Researchers and our collaborators will rigorously evaluate the impacts of a policy experiment to legalize water resale to non-networked populations.
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Tanzania: Researchers will investigate the changes in household water management and hygiene needed to realize health benefits of our government partners’ investments in community borewells. This project will build upon existing research underway by the Davis research team. Learn more…
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Principal Investigator:
Jenna Davis, Civil and Environmental Engineering and Woods Institute
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