Deadline for manuscript submissions: 30 June 2014

Special Issue Information

The Millennium Development Goal of reducing the proportion of people without sustainable access to safe drinking water and basic sanitation by 50% is reported to be ahead of schedule (with respect to water access). However, a variety of questions may be posed in scrutinizing this claim: Are estimates of unidentified villages and un-named inhabitants appropriate for inclusion in global summaries concerning the burden of disease (that is incident to a lack of access to safe water)? What monitoring and reporting strategies exist to quantify the impacts of “improved” water systems? When impact assessments are performed, are the evaluation processes and the resulting information transparent and accessible to those served by the water system, as well as to those responsible for the oversight of said systems? With over 200 non-governmental organizations reporting delivery of water treatment systems to rural communities, can we be assured that the systems are effectively removing contaminants? This Special Issue focuses on the evaluation of rural water systems. Papers evaluating these systems from a public health perspective are invited. For more information, see http://www.mdpi.com/journal/ijerph/special_issues/evaluation-rural.

Keywords

rural water
capacity
health outcomes
sustainability
evaluation
oversight
maintenance
participation
impact assessment
transparency


This Special Issue will be fully open access. We encourage authors to send us their tentative title and short abstract to the Editorial Office (ijerph@mdpi.com) for approval. Deadline for submission of abstracts is 30 June 2014.

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The International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health (IJERPH, ISSN 1660-4601) is an online, open access journal in the interdisciplinary area of environmental health sciences and public health. IJERPH is covered by leading indexing services, including PubMed (Medline) and the Science Citation Index Expanded (Web of Science). Full-text articles are also available through PubMed Central. The most recent Impact Factor for the year 2012 is 1.998.

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