Maria Luisa Salingay
Maria Luisa Baino-Salingay is an Associate Professor in Chemistry in a government-owned university in the Philippines. She has a BS Chemistry degree, a licensed Chemist and a trained Chemical Safety and Security Officer of the US Department of States.
She earned MS Physical Science major in Chemistry minor in Physics at Mindanao University of Science and Technology with a thesis entitled, “Common Halides: Their Oxidizability and Applicable Masking Agents in the Dichromate Chemical Oxygen Demand Determination.” She also earned MSc Water Management at IHE Delft with a thesis entitled “Flood Related Water Quality Assessment and Management of Can Tho City, Vietnam.” It was funded by PRoACC2 under the Flood Resilience Group of IHE Delft and Netherlands Fellowship Program (NFP). She started her PhD, under the NFP funds, last May 2016 and her research focusses on water quality assessment of surface water in flood vulnerable communities in the cities of Butuan, Philippines and Can Tho, Vietnam. The research also involves random household survey to reasonable number of respondents per city and personal interviews to key government officials in these two countries.
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Topic: Dealing with Flood-borne Diseases: Case Study in Butuan City, Philippines and Can Tho City, Vietnam
Summary of the research
Water-related disasters create floods that threaten areas surrounded with rivers and or seas, like the cities of Butuan in the Philippines and Can Tho in Vietnam. Flood cause tremendous economic loss in infrastructure, agriculture and human lives. The objective of this study is to assess the water quality of surface waters of flood vulnerable communities in terms of physico-chemical, microbiological, persistent organic pollutants and other water contaminants (heavy metals and minerals). It seeks to compare and analyse how geographic location, land use and anthropogenic activities affect the water quality of surface/flood water. Since the research involves both technical and social aspects, it also aims to analyse and correlate the water quality of surface water in relation to human health in terms of water-borne diseases and other illness related to water contaminants. And seek to distinguish and differentiate how the residents in these two cities prepare, adapt and cope with floods in relation to human health.