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RESEARCHERS COLLABORATE TO ADDRESS
water & heatlth
WRITTEN BY KENDALL DANIELS
IN RURAL CHINA AND APPALACHIA
In October 2019, the first-ever Water & Health in Rural China & Appalachia Conference kicked off at Virginia Tech on the Blacksburg campus. This event also marked the formal inclusion of Virginia Tech in a collaborative research program with researchers from UC Berkeley and China. Inadequate access to safe drinking water remains a substantial problem for low-income rural communities around the world. From central Appalachia to rural China, the causes and consequences of water contamination and unreliable access to safe water overlap considerably. 32
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Photo credit for all photos in this article: Alex Crookshanks.