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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.

Fact Sheets

 

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

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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