Water and sanitation related diseases and the changing environment : challenges interventions and preventive measures Meeting water and sanitation needs coupled with protection of the environment and prevention of pollutants is essential to every effort to improve the health and living conditions of billions of people. Meeting these needs is fundamental not only to effectively diminish incidence of diseases that afflict a third or more of the people of the world but also to improve education and economic well being and elevate billions of individuals out of vicious cycles of poverty. These lines are from the Introduction to the First Edition of Water and Sanitation Related Diseases and the Environment: Challenges Interventions and Preventive Measures written by Jens Aagaard Hansen and Janine M.H. Selendy. The Second Edition will continue to address these goals in updated and revised chapters and new ones with an added emphasis on the current and anticipated impact of climate change. Preparatory measures and preventive measures and solutions will be presented providing guidance for possible action on the local national and international levels. Consistent with the First Edition this volume is being written by authorities from the fields of public health medicine epidemiology environmental health climate change nutrition and malnutrition environmental engineering pharmacology and population research to provide an interdisciplinary picture of conditions responsible for water and sanitation related diseases and measures for prevention. Written taking into account the dynamic changes being brought about by climate changes this book further examines the pathogens and their biology morbidity and mortality resulting from lack of safe water and sanitation changing distribution of these diseases and the conditions that must be met to reduce or eradicate them. The scope of the volume will once again be international discussing anthropogenic and naturally occurring pollutants pharmaceuticals agricultural productivity migration nutrition ecosystem dynamics and the other areas addressed in the First Edition. The addition of Climate Change in the title is to emphasize that this vital subject will be addressed throughout the volume including receiving special coverage in a chapter on climate change and human health because of the importance of addressing current and anticipated changes due to climate change even more so than to the extent related concerns were raised in the First Edition thanks to added knowledge now available. Transformations now apparen ...