Most refugee camps globally are situated in water scarce areas with the main sources of water being boreholes and shallow wells. what are the possible water quality research areas within these settlements.
Now 10 years old, a publication in the Journal of Water and Health offers some insight based on empirical research conducted in refugee camps in Africa.
Article A review of water and sanitation provision in refugee camps ...
Many tribal hamlets in Kerala, India, have been studied by CWRDM, where I worked. The main issue related to water was scarcity and quality. In most of the cases the quality was related to bacteriological contamination due to lack of proper sanitation facility. Because of this there is recurrence of water borne diseases. The incidences of water borne diseases and their places of occurrence was collected from the local primary health centres and based on this information, the source of drinking water was collected and tested for its quality.
There are plenty of areas. Basically this depends on the available resource and acces to the facility up to what level.
QMRA (quantitative microbial risk assessment) is one area.
Basiacky there are two aspects (water quality and available quantity).
(the common water quality issue in settlement camps related to microbial contaminants; but there can be specific cases based on the available water resources where physical and chemical contaminants available).
physico chamical param exposers are more related to chronic effects (so you need to consider the time period they going to stay in the settlements as well).
.... there are various aspects To consider.
Thank you so much to all of you for the different answers. I am looking at them in detail in relation to my study area, resources available and skill sets required.
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