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Water and Sanitation Behavior Choices in Tanzania
This project used multi-scale modeling of health behavior choices and integrated theoretical frameworks and methodologies from behavioral sciences, epidemiology, and microeconomics to better understand behavior... -
WASH Benefits in Bangladesh and Kenya
During the first two years of life, children born in low-income countries are at risk for enteric infections due to poor water quality, sanitation conditions, and caregiver handwashing practices (WASH). -
Using Mobile Technology to Increase Water Access in Kenya
In Kibera slum in Nairobi, Kenya, clean water is sold, but residents often don’t know in advance where to buy it or how much it costs. Therefore, the time expenditure for finding and fetching clean water can be... -
Urban Sanitation and Child Exposure to Diarrheal Pathogens in Bangladesh
Sanitation & wastewater Better understanding of how household and community sanitation affects child exposure to fecal contamination and diarrheal pathogens could improve the design of sanitation interventions in... -
Solar Market Gardens as a Tool for Rural Development
In the northern region of Benin, in the Sudano-Sahel region of West Africa, the dry season between rains can last six to nine months at a time. -
Rural Health & Development at the Food-Water Nexus
More than two-thirds of the population in Africa must leave their home to fetch water for drinking and domestic use. It is estimated that some 40 billion hours of labor each year are spent hauling water... -
Rethinking the Balance Between Future Obesity and Malnutrition with Climate Change
Developing countries will face the considerable and simultaneous challenges of over- and under-nutrition in the next decades. In India, for example, increases in obesity-related diseases are predicted to accelerate even... -
Quantifying Benefits of Biogas Production in Panama
Biogas production has been lauded as a way to improve sustainability of wastewater treatment, as wastewater is converted to usable energy. However, little work has been done to quantify the value of this... -
NowCasting Water Quality
After seven productive years working in close collaboration with the State of California and Heal the Bay, our team has realized our goal of developing a state-wide beach water quality NowCast system. The NowCast system... -
Integrated Mobile Sanitation Solutions in Urban Settings in Haiti
We are developing a portable, low-cost household toilet and entrepreneurial service model to deliver safe, dignified sanitation to the urban poor. In collaboration with the NGO SOIL, we have piloted this... -
Impact Evaluation of Increased Access to Improved Water Supply in Mozambique
Water points were installed in 600 rural communities across the provinces of Nampula and Cabo Delgado. The Rural Water Supply Activity (RWSA) of the Mozambique Compact is intended to increase... -
Corn Getting Thirstier with Climate Change
To validate his hypothesis that water stress is the main culprit decreasing corn and soybean production in the Midwest, and to help differentiate the different mechanisms impacting crop yields at higher temperatures... -
Chlorine Disinfection Systems for Low Income Urban Areas in Bangladesh
Water quality & treatment Little work has been done to explore intermediate options between promoting household point-of-use (POU) water treatment technologies (treating drinking water in the home) and expensive... -
Biofuels and Food Security in South Asia and Sub-Saharan Africa
Biofuel development contributes most effectively to rural income growth when you can have vertical integration. People all along the value chain have to be making money. The emerging connections between agriculture and ... -
Arsenic in Sediment Profiles in Cambodia
Research Area: Groundwater - Presently more than 100 million people in Asia are consuming groundwater with arsenic concentrations exceeding standards recommended by the World Health Organization. Arsenic originating from Himalayan sediment ...
