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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