Potable water and their challenges in some rural areas of Lunglei

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10.2991/msc-18.2018.16How to use a DOI?

Keywords

Potable water, rural areas, contaminants, water quality, Lunglei town

Abstract

Water is an essential commodity for survival and for the improvement of life quality. Although drinking water is a basic human right, many people do not have access to safe and adequate drinking water, and thus safe and reliable water supply is one of the most important things in rural areas today. The levels of natural contaminants such as fluoride and arsenic and man-made chemical pollutants such as pesticides and insecticides are high and still rising. The biological contamination of large number of drinking water sources is a serious problem, primarily due to prevalent open defecation and insanitary conditions around the drinking water sources in rural areas. To increase economic productivity and improvement in public health, there is an urgent need to immediately enhance access to safe and adequate drinking water. In this paper, we present the present-day status of potable water from the rural areas of Lunglei town, Mizoram, and the challenges they are facing and the solutions that lie ahead for safe potable water supply for every household in this rural hilly terrain.

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© 2018, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.

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This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).

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AU  - Malsawmtluanga
AU  - Rebecca Lalduhawmi
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TI  - Potable water and their challenges in some rural areas of Lunglei
BT  - Proceedings of the Mizoram Science Congress 2018 (MSC 2018) - Perspective and Trends in the Development of Science Education and Research
PB  - Atlantis Press
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