About The Book/Author :

Water-borne diseases are the major cotributing factors of morbidity and mortality inthe developing world. Despite technological innovtions with regard to development of new drugs, diagnostic techniques, vaccines and several policy formulation, there is little evidence of reduction disease burden. In this book, the authors argue that the lack of environmental health perspective, domination of biological connotation along with the absence of integration and covergence of knowledge in policy forumlation are largely responsible for the present state of affair. The book provides the evidence based insights into the critical issues of occurrence of both, infectious and non-infectious water-borne diseases.


Atanu Sarkar is a Medical graduate from Burdwan Medical College and Hospital, West Bengal, and Masters and Ph.D. in community health and Social epidemiology respectively from Centre for Social Medicine and Community health, Jawahar Lal Nehru University, New Delhi.

Srikanta K. Panigrahi has obtained his formal degree in Civil Engineering and then received subsequent higher studies in Environmental Planning and Management from the renowned Universities of India and abroad.