Solar Disinfection of Drinking Water and Oral Rehydration Solutions

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Solar Disinfection of Drinking Water and Oral Rehydration Solutions
Guidelines for Household Application in Developing Countries

Aftim Acra - Zeina Raffoul - Yester Karahagopian
Department of Environmental Health
Faculty of Health Science - American University of Beirut
Beirut, 1984

Foreword
Oral Rehydration Therapy (ORT)
The Revolution for Children
The Four Simple Technologies
Global Diarrhoeal Diseases Control Programs
Causes, Transmission, and Control of Childhood Diarrhoea
Oral Rehydration Solutions (ORS)
The Practical Issues
Domestic Formulations
Disinfection by Boiling
Solar Energy
Fundamental Considerations
From Sun to Earth
World Distribution
A Competitor
Some Practical Hints
Solar Disinfection Studies
Drinking Water
Oral Rehydration Solutions
Appendix

Originally published by UNICEF
Regional Office for the Middle East and North Africa
P.O.Box 811721 - Amman, Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan
1984

Created by the Documentation Center at AUB in collaboration with Al Mashriq of H�gskolen i �stfold, Norway.

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