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Download fileUser acceptance: the key to evaluating SODIS and other methods for household water treatment and safe storage
conference contribution
posted on 2018-02-12, 15:09 authored by Samuel Luzi, P. Gurung, Regula Meierhofer, Martin WegelinHousehold water treatment has been identified as one effective strategy to interrupt transmission routes
of diarrhoea causing
pathogens, and thus to mitigate the global burden of waterborne
diseases. And yet,
the commitment of governments and international organizations to integrate household water treatment
and safe storage (HWTS) into their water supply, sanitation, and hygiene promotion programmes
remains limited. More efforts are required to scale up the initial successes in the promotion of HWTS
methods, and to achieve sustainable application at user level. This article illustrates the experience with
the promotion of one particular HWTS approach solar
water disinfection (SODIS) as
an input to the
debate on effectiveness, user acceptance, and integrated planning in the context of HWTS approaches.
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- Architecture, Building and Civil Engineering
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- Water, Engineering and Development Centre (WEDC)