TY - JOUR T1 - Biological sand filters: low-cost bioremediation technique for production of clean drinking water. A1 - Lea,Michael, Y1 - 2014/05/01/ PY - 2014/5/3/entrez PY - 2014/5/3/pubmed PY - 2016/8/6/medline KW - biofiltration KW - bioremediation KW - biosand filter KW - developing countries KW - microbiological contamination KW - water quality KW - water treatment SP - 1G.1.1 EP - 26 JF - Current protocols in microbiology JO - Curr Protoc Microbiol VL - 33 N2 - Approximately 1.1 billion people in rural and peri-urban communities of developing countries do not have access to safe drinking water. The mortality from diarrheal-related diseases amounts to ∼2.2 million people each year from the consumption of unsafe water. Most of them are children under 5 years of age--250 deaths an hour from microbiologically contaminated water. There is conclusive evidence that one low-cost household bioremediation intervention, use of biological sand filters, is capable of dramatically improving the microbiological quality of drinking water. This unit will describe this relatively new and proven bioremediation technology's ability to empower at-risk populations to use naturally occurring biological principles and readily available materials as a sustainable way to achieve the health benefits of safe drinking water. SN - 1934-8533 UR - https://www.unboundmedicine.com/medline/citation/24789598/Biological_sand_filters:_low_cost_bioremediation_technique_for_production_of_clean_drinking_water_ L2 - https://doi.org/10.1002/9780471729259.mc01g01s33 DB - PRIME DP - Unbound Medicine ER -