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ArticleJournal of water and health2024

Effectiveness of the upscaled use of a silver-ceramic (silver ionization) technology to disinfect drinking water in tanks at schools in rural India.

Luke Juran, Emily Wilcox, Meghan Albritton, James A Smith, Jamie D Harris, Alasdair Cohen, Lalit M Sharma, Yashi Gautam

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Article in Journal of water and health, 2024. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. An erratum has been issued. Cited by 1 paper.

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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

1 citing paper in PubMed.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

8 authors.

Luke JuranDepartment of Geography, Virginia Tech, 238 Wallace Hall, Blacksburg, VA 24061, USA; Virginia Water Resources Research Center, Virginia Tech, 210 Cheatham Hall, Blacksburg, VA 24061, USA E-mail: ljuran@vt.edu.ORCID 0000-0002-5313-2694
Emily WilcoxDepartment of Geography, Virginia Tech, 238 Wallace Hall, Blacksburg, VA 24061, USA.
Meghan AlbrittonDepartment of Geography, Virginia Tech, 238 Wallace Hall, Blacksburg, VA 24061, USA.
James A SmithDepartment of Civil and Environmental Engineering, University of Virginia, D215 Thornton Hall, Charlottesville, VA 22904, USA; Silivhere Technologies, Inc., 106 South Street West, Suite 219, Charlottesville, VA 22902, USA.
Jamie D HarrisDepartment of Civil and Environmental Engineering, University of Virginia, D215 Thornton Hall, Charlottesville, VA 22904, USA; Silivhere Technologies, Inc., 106 South Street West, Suite 219, Charlottesville, VA 22902, USA.ORCID 0000-0001-8737-6243
Alasdair CohenDepartment of Population Health Sciences, Virginia Tech, 205 Duck Pond Drive, Blacksburg, VA 24061, USA.
Lalit M SharmaS M Sehgal Foundation, Plot 34, Sector 44, Institutional Area, Gurugram, Haryana 122003, India.
Yashi GautamS M Sehgal Foundation, Plot 34, Sector 44, Institutional Area, Gurugram, Haryana 122003, India.

Funding

Institute for Society, Culture, and Environment Scholars Program, Virginia TechStephen H. Schoenholtz Water Undergraduate Research Fund, Virginia Tech
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

In many low- and middle-income countries, school children consume untreated water that has been pumped into storage tanks. The water is often of poor quality and consumption can cause gastrointestinal illnesses resulting in missed school days, growth stunting, and cognitive impairment. This study deployed a silver-ceramic technology (MadiDrop) to disinfect drinking water in school storage tanks. While silver ionization is effective at the household scale, relatively little research has been conducted on its effectiveness at the community scale. To address this gap, we assessed disinfection via MadiDrop at three schools that serve vulnerable populations in rural India. Tank inflow and treated outflow samples were tested for total coliforms (TCs) and

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CeramicsDisinfectionDrinking WaterRural PopulationSchoolsSilverWater PurificationEnterobacteriaceaeEscherichia coliHumansIndiaWater MicrobiologyDrinking WaterSilverbacterial removaldrinking water disinfectionIndiaMadiDropsilver ionizationwater tanks

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PMID39611681

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