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Combating Waterborne Disease at the Household Level
Summary
Providing safe and reliable water services to the 1.1 billion people who currently lack access to improved water sources is an essential long-term goal that will yield great health and economic benefits. HWTS dramatically improves microbial water quality, significantly reduces diarrhoea, is among the most effective of water, sanitation, and health interventions, is highly cost effective, and can be rapidly deployed and taken up by vulnerable populations. This publication provides an overview of HWTS and the work that the International Network to Promote Household Water Treatment does to reduce waterborne disease.
About the publisher
The World Health Organization (WHO) is the directing and coordinating authority for health within the United Nations system. It is responsible for providing leadership on global health matters, shaping the health research agenda, setting norms and standards, articulating evidence-based policy options, providing technical support to countries and monitoring and assessing health trends. www.who.int
