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Technical Brief No. 58. Household Water Treatment Part 1
This Technical Brief discusses treatment by straining, storage, settlement, solar disinfection, chemical disinfection, and boiling.
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Safe Water Systems for the Developing World: A Handbook for Implementing Household-based Water Treatment and Safe Storage Projects
This manual was developed for program managers, technical staff and other organization personnel. It takes the reader through the necessary steps to plan, implement, and evaluate household-based water treatment programs. Topics encompass selecting a product; considering possible methods of…
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International network to promote household water treatment and safe storage
This CDC webpage provides a summary of not only the February 2003 conference, but also the state of the art in development, testing, and evaluation of point-of-use water treatment methods. It lists and has links to MEDLINE summaries of 16 of the most relevant research studies completed to date…
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Winning the Battle Against a Child-Killer in Bangladesh
Description of the PSI program in Bangladesh to address dehydration caused by diarrhea as a major killer of children through sales and promotion of oral rehydration salts.
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Health Area: Maternal, Newborn, and Child Health
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Safe Drinking Water Alliance Fact Sheet
These links takes the reader to the Johns Hopkins University Center for Communication Programs website on safe water and to the JHU CCP website for the Safe Drinking Water Alliance and its fact sheet.
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Technical Area: Public-Private Engagement, Social and Behavior Change Communication
Disinfecting Water, Saving Lives
A profile of point-of-use safe water products to prevent diarrhea and improve family health. Describes Safe Water Solution (SWS) and PuR, Purifier of Water and highlights PSI point-of-use water programs in 7 countries.
Resource Type : Brochure/Postcard
Country : Haiti, India, Madagascar, Tanzania
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Safe Water Systems
The CDC website on Safe Water systems describes the elements of the system: point-of-use treatment, safe water storage and behavior change techniques. It links to relevant Safe Water Systems topics.
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Household Water Treatment and Safe Storage Following Emergencies and Disasters
This resource describes various effective, simple and inexpensive household water treatments. It covers chemical and solar disinfection, filtration, combined flocculation/chlorination systems, boiling and safe storage. Annexes contain specific use instructions.
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Health Area: Water, Sanitation, and Hygiene
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Managing Water in the Home: Accelerated Health Gains from Improved Water Supply
This report describes and critically review the various methods and systems for household water collection, treatment and storage. It reviews data on the ability of various methods to provide water that has improved microbiological quality and lower risk of waterborne diarrheal and other…
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A Cure That Really Works: Cambodia Tries the Nonprofit Path to Health Care
Sovan Sna had been in labor all night long. By the 16th hour of contractions, she was in trouble. The baby, her first, was not coming out. And she was so exhausted and in such pain she could barely speak. Her mind churned with fear. In the Khmer language,... To read the rest of this archive…
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Technical Area: Provider Quality, Public-Private Engagement
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