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Training caretakers...
Training caretakers to clean community wells is a highly cost-effective way to reduce exposure to coliform bacteria
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- Habib, Md. Ahasan, 1978- (författare)
- KTH,Vatten- och miljöteknik,Department of Sustainable Development, Environmental Science and Engineering, KTH-Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden,NGO Forum for Public Health, Bangladesh
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- Cocciolo, Serena (författare)
- World Bank, USA
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- Raihan, Mir Abu (författare)
- NGO Forum for Public Health, Bangladesh
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- Bhattacharya, Prosun, 1962- (författare)
- KTH,Vatten- och miljöteknik,Department of Sustainable Development, Environmental Science and Engineering, KTH-Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden
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- Tompsett, Anna (författare)
- Institute for International Economic Studies, Stockholm University, Sweden,Beijer Institute for Ecological Economics, Royal Academy of Sciences, Sweden
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- Engelska.
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Abstract
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- Progress on improving access to safe drinking water is glacial, and existing strategies for improving access have met with only limited success. We consider an often neglected dimension of water infrastructure provision: cleaning. We randomly assigned caretakers of community wells to participate in a one-off training workshop about how to clean wells. Thirteen to seventeen months later, wells with caretakers assigned to receiving training have negligible rates of contamination with Escherichia coli and almost half the rates of contamination with any coliform bacteria, compared to control wells whose caretakers did not receive training. We estimate that the cost of preventing exposure to coliform bacteria in drinking water is US$0.88 per person and that if scaled up, each US$2034 spent on the intervention could avoid the death of a child. The results suggest that researchers and policy-makers who wish to increase access to safe drinking water should pay more attention to the unglamorous but important topic of cleaning.
Ämnesord
- TEKNIK OCH TEKNOLOGIER -- Naturresursteknik (hsv//swe)
- ENGINEERING AND TECHNOLOGY -- Environmental Engineering (hsv//eng)
Nyckelord
- Randomized Experiment; Cost-effectiveness; Training; Cleaning; Tubewell; Drinking Water Quality; Microbial.
- Mark- och vattenteknik
- Land and Water Resources Engineering
Publikations- och innehållstyp
- pop (ämneskategori)
- ovr (ämneskategori)