Water is source of life on earth. It also causes diseases if not managed in the right way. Water resource management and sanitation is a major health issue. Issue related with water and sanitation are examined in depth in this book. Community development, issues like sources of food supply, management of irrigation water, hygiene promotion programmes role of government and NGOs, UNICEF related implication etc, form the core of subject matter of this work. The fact that a very high percentage of Asians and Africans don’t have access to quality water, is disturbing of situation. Poor water supply and sanitation challenges faced by the humanity, especially the poor, and suggest measures to improve the situation. It is bound to draw interest of academicians, environmentalists and other s related with the field.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR Ramesh Chandra
Dr. Ramesh Chandra is currently Principal Scientist & Head. Crop Improvement & Production Division at Central Institute for Sub Tropical Horticulture, Lucknow. He has over 30 years of experience in micropropagation, in vitro conservation & molecular biology of potato, mango, guava, papaya, litchi etc. he was instrumental in initiating & shaping potato biotechnology at Central Potato Research Institute. Shimla and initiated biotechnology research at CISH, Lucknow. Dr. Chandra has undergone tissue culture and molecular biology training at Peru, Phillippines and China as visiting scientist. He worked with John Dodds, Tissue Culture Specialist of International Potato Centre, Lima, Peru on potato micropropagation and in vitro germplasm management. He has almost 125 research publications including a book on Comprehensive Potato Biotechnology to his credit. Dr. Chandra has traveled widely and participated in various national and international conference. He is a life member of many scientific societies and fellow of Indian Society of Genetics and Plant Breeding. He has successfully completed research projects funded by DBT, UPDASP, NATP and running five research projects funded by different agencies.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR Ritu Aneja
Ritu Aneja is a gold medalist in M.Sc. from Delhi University. She is currently serving as a lecturer in the Department of Chemistry in Universty of Delhi. Prior to that she has served in reputed universities in USA like Yale and Pace, in various capacities. She has many honours and awards to her credit. Ms. Aneja has a number of published works to her credit. She had also presented many papers and supervised projects and Ph. D. theses.
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