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Paper Title
A Study of Risk Factors Associated with Poor Water and Sanitation in Srinagar City, Jammu and Kashmir
Authors
  Dr. Shanawaz Ahmad Baba
Abstract
This paper seeks to investigate the risk factors associated with inadequate water and sanitation conditions in the different income households of Srinagar city. The study is based on primary sources of data collected with the help of well structured questionnaire/schedule from 1500 households during 2013. This study identifies the 8 main water supply and sanitation related risk factors and occurrence of 6 associated diseases. The study show that most of the low and lower middle income households were exposed to all the associated risk factors of water and sanitation. The study points to the need of creating awareness amongst the low and lower middle income households about the waterborne diseases.
Keywords- Water, sanitation, waterborne diseases, income
Publication Details
Unique Identification Number - IJEDR1704183Page Number(s) - 1133-1140Pubished in - Volume 5 | Issue 4 | December 2017DOI (Digital Object Identifier) -    Publisher - IJEDR (ISSN - 2321-9939)
Cite this Article
  Dr. Shanawaz Ahmad Baba,   "A Study of Risk Factors Associated with Poor Water and Sanitation in Srinagar City, Jammu and Kashmir", International Journal of Engineering Development and Research (IJEDR), ISSN:2321-9939, Volume.5, Issue 4, pp.1133-1140, December 2017, Available at :http://www.ijedr.org/papers/IJEDR1704183.pdf
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