Skin Diseases Among People Using Urban Wastewater in Phnom Penh
Submitted by Femke Hoekstra on Wed, 12/14/2005 - 13:07
Wim van der Hoek, Vuong Tuan Anh, Phung Dac Cam, Chan Vicheth and Anders DalsgaardIn: UA Magazine No. 14 - Urban Aquatic Production
The major challenge in sustainable use of wastewater in agriculture and aquaculture is to optimise the benefits of wastewater as a resource (both the water and the nutrients it contains) and to minimise the negative impacts on human health. Epidemiological studies in different countries have established that the highest risk to human health of using wastewater in agriculture and aquaculture is posed by worm infections.
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