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Projects

Drinking safe water

Even if households have access to safe water (safe water = free from microbiological or chemical contaminants), several obstacles might prevent them from drinking safe water:

  • They prefer to go to the unsafe well because they are used to it, or it is nearer, or the water is cheaper

  • They collect safe water, but their transportation and storage containers or their drinking devices are unsafe

  • They do not use any water disinfection technique

We analyze the psychosocial and contextual drivers of not performing these behaviors and develop interventions focusing on exactly these drivers.

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Fact Sheets

 

Using persuasive arguments to change perceived costs and thus consumption of safe water in Ethiopia | PDF

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Promoting long-term arsenic-safe water consumption in Bangladesh through commitment-enhancing interventions | PDF

Projects

  • 2013-2016 | Testing behavior change strategies promoting chlorination of drinking water to prevent cholera in Chad (WHO) | more information
     

  • 2016 | Promoting solar water disinfection in Bolivia, Nicaragua, and Zimbabwe (EU)
     

  • 2016 | Improving transport and safe storage of drinking water in Benin (GIZ) | more information
     

  • 2016 | Promoting household and community filter use for fluoride removal in Ethiopia (SDC)
     

  • Promoting use of arsenic-free water sources in Bangladesh

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