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A Review of Current Implementation Practices

Household Water Treatment and Safe Storage Options in Developing Countries:
A Review of Current Implementation Practices
By Daniele S. Lantagne, Robert Quick, and Eric D. Mintz1
U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention

Note: This draft paper was commissioned the Navigating Peace Initiative, a project launched by the Woodrow Wilson International Center for ScholarsÂ’ Environmental Change and Security Program and funded by the Carnegie Corporation of New York. For more information, please visit www.wilsoncenter.org/water.

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Conclusion
HWTS systems are proven, low-cost interventions that have the potential to provide safe water to those who will not have access to safe water sources in the near term, and thus significantly reduce morbidity due to waterborne diseases and improve the quality of life. HWTS implementations have developed from small pilot projects to national-scale programs, and now face questions on how to reach the more than 1.1 billion in need of safe drinking water, and how to effectively work with other water, sanitation, and hygiene programs to achieve the greatest health impact. The active, diverse, and expanding community of researchers, private companies, faith-based organizations, international and local NGOs, and donors interested in answering these questions can play a major role in helping the world achieve the Millennium Development Goal to halve, by 2015, the proportion of people without access to safe water (World Bank Group, 2004). To achieve this goal, and to surpass it, will require continued collaboration, research and development, and investment, but it is our best hope for rapidly reducing the burden of waterborne disease and death in developing countries.

Ceramic silver impregnated pot filters for household drinking water treatment in developing countries

Master of Science Thesis in Civil Engineering
Sanitary Engineering Section
Department of Water Management
Faculty of Civil Engineering
Delft University of Technology
Doris van Halem
November 2006

 

Introduction
The World Health Organization (WHO)/UNICEF assessed in 2000 that 1.1 billion people do not have access to ‘improved drinking-water sources’. Interventions in hygiene, sanitation and water supply make proven contributors to controlling this disease burden. The ambitious target established in the ‘Millennium Development Goal1’ (MDG # 7) is “halving the proportion of people without sustainable access to safe water and basic sanitation by 2015”. Providing
more than half a billion people with safe drinking water is a major task, especially because most of them are living in rural areas. Despite major efforts to deliver safe, piped, community water to the worldÂ’s population, the reality is that water supplies delivering safe water will not be available to these people on such a short term. According to the WHO a short-term solution to meet the basic need of safe drinking water can be found in household water treatment and safe storage (HWTS).

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