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Participants:
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RCSI (IR)
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UU (UK)
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CSIR (South
Africa)
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EAWAG (CH)
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IWSD
(Zimbabwe)
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CIEMAT-PSA
(E)
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Ul (UK)
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ICROSS
(Kenya)
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USC (E)
Contacts:
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Objectives:
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Develop a
strategy for the adoption of solar disinfection of contaminated drinking
water as an effective and acceptable intervention against waterborne
diseases for vulnerable communities in developing countries without
reliable access to safe water, or in the immediate aftermath of natural
or man-made disasters
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develop
appropriate SODIS technological innovations that can be matched to
varying socio-economic conditions. Potential innovations include UV
dosimetric indicators of disinfection, photocatalytic inactivation and
continuous flow compound parabolic collector arrays for small community
distribution systems.
Achievements in 2006:
Project started
in September 2006. Reference includes one rele-vant paper in this area.
Publication:
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McGuigan K.G.,
Méndez-Hermida F., Castro-Hermida J.A., Ares-Mazás E., Kehoe S.C., Boyle
M., Sichel C., Fernández-Ibáñez P., Meyer B.P., Ramalingham S., Meyer
E.A. (2006) Batch solar disinfection (SODIS) inactivates oocysts of
Cryptosporidium parvum and cysts of Giardia muris in drinking water, J.
Appl. Microbiol. 101, 453-463.
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