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dc.contributor.advisorSusani E. Murcott.en_US
dc.contributor.authorJain, Mehulen_US
dc.contributor.otherMassachusetts Institute of Technology. Dept. of Civil and Environmental Engineering.en_US
dc.coverage.spatiala-ii---en_US
dc.date.accessioned2010-09-01T16:27:26Z
dc.date.available2010-09-01T16:27:26Z
dc.date.copyright2009en_US
dc.date.issued2010en_US
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/58082
dc.descriptionThesis (S.M.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Civil and Environmental Engineering, February 2010.en_US
dc.descriptionCataloged from PDF version of thesis.en_US
dc.descriptionIncludes bibliographical references (p. 207-210).en_US
dc.description.abstractThis thesis examines the present of the status of HWTS technologies across the world, and in one location Lucknow, India. The data for the global status of HWTS was collected by contacting the Water, Sanitation and Hygiene (WASH) groups of 45 UNICEF country offices. The second aspect of this study analyzes the user perceptions and behaviors relative to HWTS and quality of water at the point of consumption, post HWTS treatment in the field. This was executed by conducting 240 sanitary surveys and 276 water quality tests in Lucknow, India. The results of the study reveal that there is a lack of technical expertise in understanding and implementing these systems in the 45 UNICEF countries contacted and in the author's field site in Lucknow, India. Moreover, it was observed in India that safe storage was not being promoted properly by the NGO the author worked with. It was also observed that HWTS technologies are still relatively expensive because of which they are beyond the reach of the poor. Moreover, lack of education amongst the masses makes scale-up more challenging. However, going by the interest shown by both the UNICEF country offices and the respondents in Lucknow, it is only a matter of time and concerted effort, before we start to see substantial scale-up of HWTS.en_US
dc.description.statementofresponsibilityby Mehul Jain.en_US
dc.format.extent304 p.en_US
dc.language.isoengen_US
dc.publisherMassachusetts Institute of Technologyen_US
dc.rightsM.I.T. theses are protected by copyright. They may be viewed from this source for any purpose, but reproduction or distribution in any format is prohibited without written permission. See provided URL for inquiries about permission.en_US
dc.rights.urihttp://dspace.mit.edu/handle/1721.1/7582en_US
dc.subjectCivil and Environmental Engineering.en_US
dc.titleStatus of household water treatment and safe storage in 45 countries and a case study in Northern Indiaen_US
dc.typeThesisen_US
dc.description.degreeS.M.en_US
dc.contributor.departmentMassachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering
dc.identifier.oclc639578009en_US


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