Safe Water and Sanitation for a Healthier World

lt;p>Dr. Jay Rajapakse is a Fellow of the Chartered Institution of Water and Environmental Management, UK and is a Lecturer in the School of Civil Engineering and Built Environment at Queensland University of Technology (QUT). On gaining a doctoral degree in public health engineering, as a Deans Scholar from University College London (UCL), he worked as a post-doctoral researcher in water treatment at UCL and at Imperial College London, jointly with Anglian Water Services Plc (Alton Water Treatment Works). He was the project engineer for Salford Civil Engineering Ltd (SCEL, UK) for two years and subsequently joined the PNG University of Technology as a Lecturer in 1997 rising to be an Associate Professor in 2008. On leaving PNG, Jay spent a year at Cambridge University on a sabbatical attachment investigating new filter media for water filtration while gaining an MPhil degree in engineering from Cambridge University before joining QUT in 2010. Between 2005 and 2007, Jay won three competitive international awards: two from UNESCO-Daimler Chrysler (Water treatment solutions for remote communities, Mondialogo Engineering Award, Berlin 2005 and India 2007); and one award from the World Bank (Innovations in Water and Sanitation), Washington DC, in 2006. His main areas of research are public health engineering (filtration and pre-filtration) and remote community water treatment.

Chapter 1.- Introduction. Chapter 2.- Possibilities and scenarios for the fulfillment of the SDGs of water and sanitation in Latin America. Chapter 3.- The challenges and opportunities of financing the water and sanitation sector from the perspective of meeting the SDG 6 targets in Africa. Chapter 4.- Gaps and Opportunities in reaching SDG6 targets in Russia. Chapter 5.- Water and sanitation developments in China. Chapter 6.- Readiness of Solomon Islands in meeting SDGs in water and sanitation. Chapter 7.- National WATSAN targets and milestones towards achieving SDG 6 by 2030 in Sri Lanka. Chapter 8.- Investigating measures to get the Caribbean Region on track to meet water and sanitation targets by 2030. Chapter 9.- Problems facing developed countries: the case of Australia. Chapter 10.- Water and health in remote Indigenous communities in developed countries. Chapter 11.- Sustainable safe water and sanitation interventions in remote Ghanaian Communities. Chapter 12.- Sanitation in transition: Prospects for a sustainable sanitation business. Chapter 13.- SDG6 and its interlinkages with other SDGs and integrating SDGs in policy and practice: Uganda case study. Chapter 14.- Conclusion and beyond 2030.