Bulletin of the World Health Organization 2010;88:482-482. doi: 10.2471/BLT.10.080077

Editorial - Swimming upstream: why sanitation, hygiene and water are so important to mothers and
their daughters Full-text - http://www.who.int/bulletin/volumes/88/7/10-080077.pdf

Clarissa Brocklehurst a & Jamie Bartram b

a. Water, Sanitation and Hygiene Section, United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF), New York, United States of America.
b. The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 135 Dauer Drive, Chapel Hill, NC, USA.

Email: jbartram@email.unc.edu

Excerpt - So many things impact the health and well-being of women as they navigate their childbearing years. The most under-recognized of these are water, sanitation and hygiene, yet the benefits of these basic interventions are extensive and self perpetuating, impacting women and their daughters from generation to generation. Let us start with a pregnant woman. She is likely to have to collect and carry water for her baby’s delivery from a hand pump outside her home; globally more than 40% of households do not have a water supply on their premises. If she is very unfortunate she will be among the 13% who do not even have a hand pump and rely on an unimproved water source, made even more risky by the fact that most people in her community lack even a basic toilet. These unhygienic conditions take on new significance when she weans her child. Diarrhoea kills 1.5 million children every year and there is a strong link between diarrhoea and malnutrition.

Am. J. Trop. Med. Hyg.,83(1), 2010, pp. 135-143 doi:10.4269/ajtmh.2010.09-0431

Disinfection
By-Product Formation and Mitigation Strategies in Point-of-Use Chlorination with Sodium Dichloroisocyanurate in Tanzania

Daniele S. Lantagne*, Fred Cardinali, AND Ben C. Blount - Enteric Diseases Epidemiology Branch, and Division of Laboratory Sciences, National Center for Environmental Health, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, Georgia

E-mail: dlantagne@cdc.gov

Almost a billion persons lack access to improved drinking water, and diarrheal diseases cause an estimated 1.87 million deaths per year. Sodium dichloroisocyanurate (NaDCC) tablets are widely recommended for household water treatment to reduce diarrhea. Because NaDCC is directly added to untreated water sources, concerns have been raised about the potential health impact of disinfection by-products. This study investigated trihalomethane (THM) production in water from six sources used for drinking (0.6–888.5 nephelometric turbidity units) near Arusha, Tanzania. No sample collected at 1, 8, and 24 hours after NaDCC addition exceeded the World Health Organization guideline values for either individual or total THMs. Ceramic filtration, sand filtration, cloth filtration, and settling and decanting were not effective mitigation strategies to reduce THM formation. Chlorine residual and THM formation were not significantly different in NaDCC and sodium hypochlorite treatment. Household chlorination of turbid and non-turbid waters did not create THM concentrations that exceeded health risk guidelines.

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