Sheela Roy

TL;DR: Despite the requirements for provision of safe drinking water in municipal areas, in practice the water supplied in Vellore is contaminated and current household storage practices increase the level of contamination in at least two-thirds of households.

TL;DR: The McMaster egg counting method is an alternative method for monitoring large-scale treatment programs and is a robust (accurate multiplication factor) and accurate (reliable efficacy results) method, which can be easily standardized.

TL;DR: Solar disinfection of water is an inexpensive, effective, and acceptable method of increasing water safety in a resource limited environment, and can significantly decrease diarrhoeal morbidity in children.

TL;DR: To estimate the prevalence, spatial patterns and clustering in the distribution of soil‐transmitted helminth (STH) infections, and factors associated with hookworm infections in a tribal population in Tamil Nadu, India, a large number of cases were reported.

TL;DR: A 6-month randomized, controlled intervention trial using chlorine, Moringa oleifera seeds, a closed valved container, and controls found no reduction in coliform counts in water samples from participants' homes, in contrast to the improvement seen with Escherichia coli seeded distilled water.