Home water treatment

Household-level Water Treatment

Combating Waterborne Disease at the Household Level (WHO, 2007)

Scaling up Household Water Treatment among Low-Income Populations (WHO, 2009)

International Network to Promote Household Water Treatment and Safe Storage

Fact Sheets and Other Documents on Household Water Treatment (CDC, 2008)

Global Technology Landscape of Household Water Treatment and Safe Storage Products (PATH,
2010)

Social, Cultural and Behavioral Correlates of Household Water Treatment and Storage (Center for Communication Programs, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, 2010)

Household water treatment and safe storage options in developing countries: a review of current implementation practice (Wilson Center, 2007)

Point-of-use household drinking water filtration: a practical, effective solution for providing sustained access to safe drinking water in the developing world (Environmental Science & Technology, 2008)

Evaluation of a pre-existing, 3-year household water treatment and handwashing intervention in rural
Guatemala (International Journal of Epidemiology, 2009)

Use of ceramic water filtration in the prevention of diarrheal disease: A randomized controlled trial in rural South Africa and Zimbabwe (American Journal of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene, 2008)

Diarrhoea prevention in a high-risk rural Kenyan population through point-of-use chlorination, safe water storage, sanitation, and rainwater harvesting (Epidemiology and Infection, 2008)

Interventions to improve water quality for preventing diarrhoea (Cochrane review, 2006)

Household Water (part of the rolling revision of the WHO Guidelines for Drinking-water Quality,
2007)

Domestic Water Quantity, Service Level and Health (WHO, 2003)

Managing Water in the Home: Accelerated Health Gains from Improved Water Supply
(WHO, 2002)

Safe Water Systems for the Developing World: A Handbook for Implementing Household-based Water Treatment and Safe Storage Projects (CDC/CARE) Safe Water System (CDC website)
Watch: two videos on Safe Water System in Western Kenya and Bolivia
Safe Drinking Water (P&G Health Sciences Institute website)

Video: Saving Lives with Safe Water: Household Water Treatment and Safe Storage (PSI/UNICEF, 2010)

Bibliography on Point-of-Use Water Disinfection (USAID Environmental Health webpage)

BUT:
Household water treatment in poor populations: Is there enough evidence for scaling up now? (Environmental Science and Technology, 2009)
Evaluation of a pre-existing, 3-year household water treatment and handwashing intervention in rural Guatemala (International Journal of Epidemiology, 2009) – "The lack of child health impacts is consistent with unsustained behaviour adoption. Our findings highlight the difficulty of implementing behaviour-based household water treatment and handwashing outside of intensive efficacy trials."
Household water treatment in developing countries: Comparing different intervention types using meta-regression (Environmental Science & Technology, 2009) − "Compared to the ceramic filter all other interventions (Biosand, chlorine and safe waste storage, combined coagulant-chlorine, and SODIS) were much less effective. A Monte Carlo model predicted that over 12 months ceramic filters were likely to be still effective at reducing disease, whereas SODIS, chlorination, and coagulation-chlorination had little, if any, benefit. With the currently available evidence ceramic filters are the most effective form of HWT in the long term; disinfection-only interventions, including SODIS, appear to have poor if any long-term public health benefit."
A critical evaluation of two point-of-use water treatment technologies: can they provide water that meets WHO drinking water guidelines? (JWH, 2010) − BioSand and ceramic filters: "The following parameters were monitored on filters in rural Cambodia over a six-month period: iron, manganese, fluoride, nitrate, nitrite and Escherichia coli. The results revealed that these technologies are not capable of consistently meeting all of the WHO drinking water guidelines for these parameters."