Environmental Health Engineering in the Tropics
Environmental Health Engineering in the Tropics

Author: Sandy Cairncross

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2018-11-12

Total Pages: 359

ISBN-13: 1134665865

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

This fully updated third edition of the classic text, widely cited as the most important and useful book for health engineering and disease prevention, describes infectious diseases in tropical and developing countries, and the effective measures that may be used against them. The infections described include the diarrhoeal diseases, the common gut worms, Guinea worm, schistosomiasis, malaria, Bancroftian filariasis and other mosquito-borne infections. The environmental interventions that receive most attention are domestic water supplies and improved excreta disposal. Appropriate technology for these interventions, and also their impact on infectious diseases, are documented in detail. This third edition includes new sections on arsenic in groundwater supplies and arsenic removal technologies, and new material in most chapters, including water supplies in developing countries and surface water drainage.

Irrigation Development Planning
Irrigation Development Planning

Author: J. R. Rydzewski

Publisher:

Published: 1987-09-24

Total Pages: 286

ISBN-13:

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

This work provides authoritative coverage of various considerations involved in planning irrigation projects. Its broad range of approaches, offered by international experts, are applicable to all kinds of irrigation projects, wherever they are planned. Topics explored include: estimating surface and groundwater resources, assessing water requirements and system capacity, feasibility reports, and the present and future impact of irrigation development on human health and social planning.

Water Resources and Agricultural Development in the Tropics
Water Resources and Agricultural Development in the Tropics

Author: Christopher J. Barrow

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2016-07-01

Total Pages: 369

ISBN-13: 1317885201

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

First published in 1988. There are many excellent texts on water supply and irrigation engineering, irrigation economics, agricultural development and the problems which often plague such efforts. Few syntheses of such writings have been made, despite a clear need for them from people interested in water resources and agricultural development: students of geography, economics, development studies and agricultural management, administrators, planners and aid agency staff. This book attempts to provide a broad interdisciplinary introduction for such people.