Catalogue

The Alaska Water Sewer Challenge was created to develop on-site a water and wastewater system that was less expensive than conventional piped…

This lecture covers the questions about characteristics of arctic populations and includes key indicators of their health status. The comparative…

The Nunavut communities retrieve drinking water from surface water sources such as lakes, rivers and glaciers. Some communities experience climate…

This lecture covers the questions about the health outcomes associated with climate change and environmental pollution in the Arctic region. Direct…

The Arctic is the coldest and one of the least populated regions in the world. This offers very specific challenges for sustainable sanitation and…

Cold climates represent challenges to water management uncommon to warmer climates. Water distribution and wastewater transportation systems need to…

In this lecture, pathogens relevant to circumpolar exposures will be identified, along with their use in quantitative microbial risk assessment (QMRA…

Arctic indigenous communities endured many forced lifestyle changes during the last decades. These changes are especially related to indigenous…

Pharmaceutical and their metabolites are now frequently detected in the effluent of wastewater treatment plants and in the aquatic environment. The…

Source separation sanitation is a promising and feasible option in extreme living conditions, such as cold or hot climates, to solve pollution…

There are two different groups of POPs; one is the flyers, represented by a-HCH (organochlorine pesticide), entering the Arctic mainly through…

Modern trace analytical methods in organic analytical chemistry allow for quantifying a multitude of anthropogenic pollutants in the environment.…

Even the early medical experts of the renaissance period already knew that the fecal and urinal excrement of an individual human were useful for the…

High performance wastewater treatment systems may reduce the pollution load in the receiving water body, but in doing so the environmental burden…

This section of the course emphasizes the importance of working closely with and understanding the motivations and perspectives of the population…