Water and Sanitation in the New Millennium

Chapter 1. Overview of the Current Scenario of Community Water Supply and Environmental Sanitation in India (Nath KJ).- Chapter 2. Nirmal Grams: Problems & Prospects (Chandan S).- Chapter 3. Promoting Rural Sanitation - Key Challenges (Sengupta AK).- Chapter 4. Development of Guideline for Implementation of Water Safety Plan for the Rural Water Supply Systems in India (Nath KJ).- Chapter 5. Household Water Treatment: Health Significance and Risk-Based Approaches for Consumer Safety (Ronnie N).- Chapter 6. Geogenic Contamination of Groundwater in India and technological scope for supply of risk free water in the affected areas (Ghosh NC).- Chapter 7. Pesticides, Heavy Metals and Fluoride Contamination of Ground Water Sources: Global and National Perspective (Seth).- Chapter 8. Fluoride and Fluorosis Mitigation: Indian contributions and its impact (Susheela AK).- Chapter 9. Community based approach for mitigation of Arsenic problems: Case studies in West Bengal (Gupta A).- Chapter 10. A Cost-Effective Technology for Arsenic Removal: Case Study of Zerovalent Iron based IIT Bombay Arsenic filter in West Bengal (Banerji T).- Chapter 11. Management of Urban Wastewater Infrastructure with Sewer Rehabilitation and Maintenance (Basu NB).- Chapter 12. Urban Solid Waste Management: Key Issues and Challenges (Majumder A).- Chapter 13. Vector Control: Need for an Integrated and Eco-based approach (Sharma VP).- Chapter 14. Role of Fishes in Vector-borne Disease Control in South-East Asia (Yadav RS).- Chapter 15. Health Impact of Bacteriological and Chemical contamination of Drinking water with special reference to Arsenic (Mazumder DNG).- Chapter 16. Impact of Water Contamination and Lack of Sanitation on the Nutritional status of the Community (Chakravarthy I).- Chapter 17. 1. Sustainable Management of Water Resource in India: Feasibility of Linking the Rivers (Rudra K).- Chapter 18. Cost-Benefit Analysis of Hydropower: Case Study of Kotlibhel 1B (Jhunjhunwala).- Chapter 19.

Dr. Vinod Prakash Sharma, M.Sc. 1960; D.Phil. 1964; D.Sc. 1979 all from Allahabad University, Post Doctoral Research Associate, University of Notre Dame and Purdue University, USA (1964-1968); Pool Officer, Forest Research Institute, Dehradun (1969-1970); Senior Scientist WHO/ICMR Unit on Genetic Control of Mosquitoes, New Delhi (1970-1975), Deputy Director Vector Control Research Centre/Malaria Research Centre (1975-1982); Founder Director National Institute of Malaria Research (1962-1998), and Additional Director General Indian Council of Medical Research (1998). He is FNA, FASc, FNASc, FAMS, FTWAS, and Fellow of several other learned societies. He has specialized in Malaria & Vector Biology. He has 40 years of research and field experience, published c400 scientific papers, book on Anopheles and edited 14 books. Under his leadership NIMR had earned international reputation of excellence in malaria research and control, and established linkages with leading national and international laboratories.

Prof. K.J. Nath is widely regarded as one of India's foremost experts on Community Water Supply and Sanitation, Environmental Health and Public Health Engineering. For over four decades, he has played a variety of roles ranging from project engineer, researcher, academician, teacher, consultant, planner and in the process has won nationwide and international acclaim and recognition. As Professor of Environmental Sanitation and Director of the All India Institute of Hygiene & Pubic Health (AIIH&PH), Govt. of India (GOI), he did seminal works on rural and urban water supply and sanitation, urban waste management, air and water pollution, water quality surveillance, environmental epidemiology and impact assessment.