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Assess water quality to help prevent waterborne diseases

  • Water Quality Testing
  • Waterborne Diseases

Civil society organisations need to assess water quality to help prevent waterborne diseases

Need characteristics

Societal challenges
  • Public Health and Risk Prevention
Themes
Supply sufficient drinking water of good quality to protect population health
Sub themes
Information on freshwater quality, quantity and localisation
Stakeholder group
  • Civil Society Organisations (CSOs)
Task/Job
  • Reduce the transmission of diseases
Pain
  • High cost of technology
  • High taxes
  • Malaria
  • Waterborne diseases
Gain
  • Techniques and equipment for fast detection of water pollution
Simplified climate and water scenarios
  • Wetter
  • Wetter & Dryer

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