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Climate change impacts on water salinity and health

It is estimated that 884 million people do not have access to clean drinking water in the world. Increasing salinity of natural drinking water sources has been reported as one of the many problems that affect low-income countries, but one which has not been fully explored. This problem is exacerbate...

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Autores principales: Vineis, Paolo, Chan, Queenie, Khan, Aneire
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Atlantis Press 2011
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7320388/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23856370
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jegh.2011.09.001
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description It is estimated that 884 million people do not have access to clean drinking water in the world. Increasing salinity of natural drinking water sources has been reported as one of the many problems that affect low-income countries, but one which has not been fully explored. This problem is exacerbated by rising sea-levels, owing to climate change, and other contributing factors, like changes in fresh water flow from rivers and increased shrimp farming along the coastal areas. In some countries, desalination plants are used to partly remove salt and other minerals from water sources, but this is unlikely to be a sustainable option for low-income countries affected by high salinity. Using the example of Bangladesh as a model country, the following research indicates that the problem of salinity can have serious implications with regard to rising rates of hypertension and other public health problems among large sectors of the worldwide population.
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spelling pubmed-73203882020-07-28 Climate change impacts on water salinity and health Vineis, Paolo Chan, Queenie Khan, Aneire J Epidemiol Glob Health Article It is estimated that 884 million people do not have access to clean drinking water in the world. Increasing salinity of natural drinking water sources has been reported as one of the many problems that affect low-income countries, but one which has not been fully explored. This problem is exacerbated by rising sea-levels, owing to climate change, and other contributing factors, like changes in fresh water flow from rivers and increased shrimp farming along the coastal areas. In some countries, desalination plants are used to partly remove salt and other minerals from water sources, but this is unlikely to be a sustainable option for low-income countries affected by high salinity. Using the example of Bangladesh as a model country, the following research indicates that the problem of salinity can have serious implications with regard to rising rates of hypertension and other public health problems among large sectors of the worldwide population. Atlantis Press 2011 2011-11-17 /pmc/articles/PMC7320388/ /pubmed/23856370 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jegh.2011.09.001 Text en © 2011 Ministry of Health, Saudi Arabia. Published by Elsevier Ltd. This is an open access article under the CC BY-NC-ND license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/)
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