Allison Jones

Annotated Bibliography
Handbook of water purity and quality. (2009). Amsterdam: Academic Press.

This books gives an overview of actual water purification, the methods used, and
its safety from contaminants from natural and man-made water. It also covers the issues
that other countries are facing with water scarcity. It goes into the different ways of
purification, water analysis, sampling, and investigations into the water quality. This
book will be very beneficial to writing my paper because it covers all of the main topics
that I can covering in my research question, how they purify water and also the quality of
their purified water.


WHO/UNICEF Joint Water Supply and Sanitation Monitoring Programme.
(2005). Water for life: Making it happen. Geneva, Switzerland: World Health
Organization

This book was written by UNICEF and World Health Organization, written in
2005 about the water supply and sanitation for the next ten years. Its helps understand
the quality of the water that people are drinking right now and the things that are being
done to improve them. This book interests me because it is specifically talking about the
sanitation of water in the world which I want to focus my paper on, the different qualities
of water in different counties.

Botes, M., & Cloete, T. E. (January 01, 2010). The potential of nanofibers and
nanobiocides in water purification. Critical Reviews in Microbiology, 36, 1, 68-
81.

This article focuses specifically in bacteria that could be infecting our drinking
water. It talks about different studies that have been done to tests the different qualities
of water. These things that are being found in water can reduce the quality and begin to
cause major problems in the future. This will help in my project because I am going to
end my paper taking about the different health aspects of different qualities of water from
different places.

Pritchard, M., Edmondson, A., Mkandawire, T., Kululanga, G., & O'Neill, J. G. (August
04, 2009). Potential of using plant extracts for purification of shallow well water
in Malawi.Physics and Chemistry of the Earth, 34, 799-805.

This Article focuses on a specific plant that could possibly be used to help purify
the contaminated wells specifically in Malawi. The well are the only source for most
people who live in these types of countries and they are usually gone untreated which is
causing health effects on the people of these regions. They think that using this type of
plant will reduces the cost of purification and be much more manageable. This will come
into play in my essay when talking about different ways that other countries are purifying
their water compared to the United States.

Allison Jones
Annotated Bibliography
Arvai, J., & Post, K. (January 01, 2012). Risk management in a developing country
context: improving decisions about point-of-use water treatment among the rural
poor in Africa. Risk Analysis : an Official Publication of the Society for Risk
Analysis, 32, 1, 67-80.

This article focuses of finding and promoting effective and sustainable ways of
providing clean and drinkable water to other countries. The main part of this article to
talk about finding ways to improve water quality and make it a wide-spread idea. This
will work with my essay because it is focusing on this is being done in other countries
and new things that can be done in the future to make a lasting effect.

"Presutti., & Carolyn". (n.d.). Students Invent Water Purification Disc.VOA - Voice of
America English News. Retrieved October 2, 2013, from
http://www.voanews.com/content/water-purification-africa-/1679934.html

This is a video that shows a group of students that have created a tool that will be
put into water and will automatically purify when placed into it. It is something that can
be made in a lab and the main ingredient is silver. When the Madi Drop is placed into
water the silver atoms release a electrical charge which purifies the water. This new
invention could be revolutionary which is something to report about in my paper because
it is a new invention in purifying water.

Three different approaches to water purification in Africa | Gemini News Service.
(n.d.). Gemini News Service | A new way to get your news. Retrieved October 2,
2013, from http://www.gemininews.org/2011/03/30/three-different-approaches-
to-water-purification-in-africa/

This website gives likes to three different countries in Africa and talks about how
each country purifies their water differently. Each country has different approaches to
cleaning and purifying their water and this website discusses each of them. This will help
my article because it will add even more examples of how each country has their own
style of purifying and I will be able to compare them to see with one of them shows signs
of being the cleanest.

Schiermeier, Q. (January 01, 2008). Water: purification with a pinch of
salt. Nature, 452,7185, 260-1.

This article talks about the growing concerns all over the world that countries are
facing. It focuses on the costs of water consumption here in the United States right now
and how much it is continuing to grow each year. Then it discusses a new idea that uses
carbon nanotubes, saline water and a mixture solution to produce clean purified water.
This will help with my paper because it is discussing a new way that can be used that is
more effective and also cost-effective.


Allison Jones
Annotated Bibliography
Hunter, P. R. (January 01, 2009). Household water treatment in developing countries:
comparing different intervention types using meta-regression. Environmental
Science & Technology, 43, 23, 8991-7.

This article talks mainly about household water treatment because of the negative
effects that would water waste is having on undeveloped countries, there are many
waterborne diseases that we could fix. It largely discusses a study that was done on
household water treatment and how the things we do and the water we waste is
negatively affecting other parts of the world. This will help my essay because it will be
able to relate the United States to other underdeveloped counties.

Duse, A. G., da, S. M. P., & Zietsman, I. (January 01, 2003). Coping with hygiene in
South Africa, a water scarce country. International Journal of Environmental
Health Research, 13, 95-105.

This article talks about the negative effects of under-developed counties having a
very scarce amount of water. Without water a person is not even able to have personal
hygiene, which can cause infections in the person and also make it much easier to spread
infections to others. It goes into talking about the statistics of the scarce water and the
growing effects of it. This will contribute to my paper because it is talking about the
effects that it has on other countries, which is what the second half of my paper is going
to be.