Water Magazine

Category: Water and Health

• Notes from the field

  Countering Risk with Resilience – Tackling Harmful Algal Blooms with Robust Water Treatment

  01/27/2015

  Holly Johnson

  Water and Health

  Water in the Environment

  Water Infrastructure

  

  In early August 2014, a harmful algal bloom (HAB) in the western basin of Lake Erie produced toxins that, due to their inability to be treated by local water treatment facilities, rendered drinking water unsafe for nearly 500,000...

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• Opinion

  The People’s Climate March: A Catalyst for Environmental Change

  10/07/2014

  Mary Chong

  Water and Health

  Water in the Environment

  Water and Energy

  

  They marched, and the world took notice.  Over 400,000 people rallied on the streets of New York City in the People’s Climate March on September 21 to urge for action against climate change.  As the largest climate...

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• Notes from the field

  Addressing menstrual hygiene barriers to girls’ education in Rwanda

  09/30/2014

  Meagan Hawes

  Water and Health

  

  On a hillside in rural Rwanda, we dance.  With arms raised, like the horns of sacred cows, we shuffle then clap, fifty pairs of hard-worked hands beating together.  Afternoon shadows stretch across the rolling hills.  The...

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• The Quest for Three Cities: Improving Municipal Funding for Urban Sanitation

  09/23/2014

  Tanvi Nagpal

  Water and Health

  

  This summer a team of researchers from the School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS) and the Urban Institute headed to Maputo, Mozambique, Nakuru, Kenya and the Ga West municipality in Greater Accra, Ghana as part of the first...

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• Notes from the field

  Lasting impressions: Hopkins NSF-IGERT onsite research in developing countries

  09/18/2014

  Alexis Louie

  Water and Health

  Water in the Environment

  Water and Agriculture

  

  Veritas vos liberabit, “the truth shall set you free,” is a motto that Johns Hopkins proudly embodies. Founded as America’s first research university, JHU certainly lives up to this tenet with ten academic divisions...

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