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Ingestion of unsafe water: is having a safe source enough?
conference contribution
posted on 2018-02-12, 15:09 authored by Shafiul A. Ahmed, Bilqis A. Hoque, Abdullah Al MahmudBangladesh has achieved a remarkable success in handpump and piped water supply coverage. Majority (64 per cent) of the urban population and nearly all (93 per cent) of the rural population have access to handpump or piped water (BBS, 1995). Despite reaching such enviable success in installing handpump or piped water system, water related diseases remain a major cause or mortality and morbidity in Bangladesh (Mitra, 1992). This indicates that ingestion of contaminated water - the predominant mode of pathogen transmission - continues to be practised. The logical questions are: why do people keep on using unsafe surface water sources, what are the practices that put people at risk of ingesting unsafe water, and what
behavioural changes are required to prevent such ingestion. Presented here are findings of a study undertaken to
investigate domestic water management practices in rural and urban homes in Bangladesh in an attempt to answer
these questions.
Funding
This research was supported by UNICEF and the International Centre for Diarrhoeal Disease Research, Bangladesh (ICDDR,B).
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- Architecture, Building and Civil Engineering
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- Water, Engineering and Development Centre (WEDC)
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AHMED, S.A., HOQUE, B.A. and AL MAHMUD, A., 1998. Ingestion of unsafe water: is having a safe source enough?. IN: Pickford, J. (ed). Sanitation and water for all: Proceedings of the 24th WEDC International Conference, Islamabad, Pakistan, 31 August-4 September 1998, pp.227-229.Publisher
© WEDC, Loughborough UniversityVersion
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WEDC_ID:12890Language
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