2013 Fiscal Year Final Research Report

A Study on Sustainable Safe Water Supply in Arsenic Contamination Area

Research Project

Project/Area Number	24830084
Research Category	Grant-in-Aid for Research Activity Start-up
Allocation Type	Single-year Grants
Research Field	Sociology
Research Institution	Toyo University
Principal Investigator	MANAGO GAKU 東洋大学, 国際地域学部, 助教 (80633528)
Project Period (FY)	2012-08-31 – 2014-03-31
Keywords	カンボジア / 地下水ヒ素 / 雨水利用 / 村落部
Research Abstract	The target of this study is to suggest about sustainable safe water supply in arsenic contamination are, especially Cambodia. The country is implementing for improvement of arsenic contamination in ground water. Many of people in rural Cambodia is depending on polluted ground water now for drinking and Bathing and so on. In addition, they are using other water source which is rain water, river water source and bottled water for drinking. It is available for them to fetch and buy easy. However bottled water is expensive, and then other water source is concentrating wiht the E Coli, Coli form and many harmful bacteria. Therefore this study clarified these water qualities, behavior of water use in rural Cambodia from investigation.