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The Impact of the Global Water Crisis on Health and Human Development, The International Science and Health Network, in collaboration with Harvard, Integrated Life Sciences, Harvard Initiative for Global Health, and the Center for International Development, Harvard School of Public Health, 11 May 2007, Speakers.

Welcome & Introduction: The importance of water & sanitation on human development
Richard Cash, Senior Lecturer in International Health, Harvard School of Public Health

Household Drinking Water Treatment and Safe Storage: A New Tool for Environmental Public Health Intervention to Provide Safe Water to 1+ Billion People
Susan Murcott, MIT Civil and Environmental Engineering

The use of Biosand filters to improve water quality in rural Nicaragua
David Gullette, Newton/San Juan del Sur project

Ecological sanitation: Current research on sanitation and health in El Salvador
Christine Moe, Emory University

Basic sanitation and water supply: how international agencies can help
Pete Kolsky, Energy Transport and Water Department, World Bank.

Water supply during disaster management: Challenges faced in water supply management in the Chad refugee crisis & in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina
Miriam Asckenasy, Oxfam America

Current research into the control of waterborne disease: new methods for the control of cholera and typhoid
Daniele Lantagne, CDC

Engaging the public on water issues in the age of "compassion fatigue": Innovative campaigns to raise public awareness. The TAP water project
Andrew Essex, Droga5

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