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What's going on? Exploring drinking water practices as an outsider
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posted on 2018-02-12, 15:09 authored by Claire Furlong, Charlotte PatersonUnderstanding existing drinking water practices is essential when trying to implement an improvement
programme. Gaining this information can be particularly difficult for ‘outsiders’. This paper describes how
using a mixed methodologies (or triangulation) approach, utilising both qualitative and quantitative methodologies,
provides a deeper understanding of the situation. It highlights how qualitative and quantitative
research is this instance is symbiotic providing depth and context to the data. The qualitative ethnographic
results were used to question, validate and clarify the quantitative questionnaire results. Through this approach
a number of interesting drinking water practices were identified in the case study area, Bellavista
Nanay, Peru.
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- Architecture, Building and Civil Engineering
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- Water, Engineering and Development Centre (WEDC)
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FURLONG, C. and PATERSON, C., 2008. What's going on? Exploring drinking water practices as an outsider. IN: Jones, H. (ed). Access to sanitation and safe water - Global partnerships and local actions: Proceedings of the 33rd WEDC International Conference, Accra, Ghana, 7-11 April 2008, pp. 389-393.Publisher
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WEDC_ID:12611Language
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