Assessing rural small community water supply in Limpopo, South Africa: Water service benchmarks and reliability

Majuru, Batsirai; Jagals, Paul; Hunter, Paul R.

doi:10.1016/j.scitotenv.2012.07.024

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“…The results of recent studies indicate that the consistency of access to water of high quality may be central to delivering health benefits, 50 since such benefits can be compromised by just a few days of consuming higher-risk water or even by modest reductions in adherence to interventions that have been designed to improve water quality. 34,51 Improved epidemiological and risk assessment studies that account for the complex, dynamic, human and environmental factors that influence microbial water quality would provide further insight into the importance of drinking-water safety to public health in "real-world" -and especially low-income -settings. ■ Competing interests: None declared.…”

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Why “improved” water sources are not always safe

Shaheed

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Montgomery

et al. 2014

Bull. World Health Organ.

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“…31,32 The microbial risks associated with intermittent water supplies have also received some attention 28,[33][34][35] …”

Section: Unsafe Piped Watermentioning

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Why “improved” water sources are not always safe

Shaheed

Orgill

Montgomery

et al. 2014

Bull. World Health Organ.

137

114

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“…Assessing the democratization of access to water supply based only on the forms of access to the infrastructure tends to simplify what is actually a complex reality, given the risks of intermittency of the supply and/or the distribution of water not up to the pre--established drinkability standards (GUARDIOLA et al, 2010;MAJURU et al, 2012). Such a perspective induces the identification of false progress towards the universalization of access and generates inaccurate evaluations of the situation of a given population group, or it may conceal inadequate or precarious service provision to the group.…”

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Human Right in Perspective: Inequalities in Access to Water in a Rural Community of the Brazilian Northeast

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This paper aims to contribute to the debate on the increasing inequalities in access to water and the concentration of the deficit among certain population groups. In particular, it seeks a better understanding of the multiple inequalities of access to water that can exist within a community that lacks a water supply system. Data collection took place in the community of Cristais (Ceará) and included the application of 232 questionnaires to all of the community's heads of household between May and July 2014. The findings reveal that the conditions of access to water in relation to quantity and physical and economic accessibility are not uniform within the community of Cristais and these inequalities derive from the various forms of vulnerability found in the community. Understanding how these inequalities in access function within an excluded group can contribute to the development of more effective public policies to tackle this problem.

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“…The majority of the region is rural, and water quality shows that although access to an upgraded basic water supply in the region has improved, fecal coliform counts of groundwater boreholes, particularly community boreholes during the rainy season, exceed both the South Africa and World Health Organization's (WHO) benchmark limits. 12,13 We have previously reported that the stool-shedding prevalence of Cryptosporidium shedding by polymerase chain reaction (PCR) in Limpopo is 13% among HIV-infected adults hospitalized with chronic diarrhea (25.5% of among all hospitalized patients). Whereas others had reported Cryptosporidium-positive stools were present in 73.6% of children in Uganda, only 17.9% of school children in the Vhembe District were PCR-positive for Cryptosporidium.…”

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confidence: 99%