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Household water treatment technologies: strategies for scale up & success indicators
Household water treatment technologies: strategies for scale up & success indicator
A household water treatment implementation framework: lessons learnt from the diversity of implementation worldwide
Household water treatment (HWT), the use of simple accessible technologies for treating water within the home, is gaining momentum globally. As estimates of worldwide users top 1.1 billion and efforts focus on scaling up existing HWT programs, there is a need to document lessons learned from HWT implementation to date and disseminate them among new and existing implementers. CAWST’s review of current implementation practices coupled with years of experience working with implementers worldwide has demonstrated that while no one standard model exists, successful program implementation shares common factors. These factors have been developed into an implementation guidance framework, focused on five key areas; creating demand, ensuring supply, monitoring and improving implementation, building human capacity, and sustained financing
Power of knowledge in executing household water treatment programs globally
This paper presents a case study of five organizations from five countries: Haiti, El Salvador, India, the Philippines
and Pakistan, demonstrating that knowledge transfer can be a catalyst for locally-driven water programs
for the poor. Each organization received training and technical consulting from the Centre for Affordable
Water and Sanitation Technology on Project Implementation for the Biosand Filter. Each then established
an independent project resulting in cleaner water for 156,000 people in six years, and widespread biosand
filter acceptance among users. Lessons learned are that knowledge transfer can result in effective, sustainable
and scaleable technology implementation; transfer takes place one person at a time, making education
at all levels crucial; pilots/demonstrations are essential motivators to technology adoption; involvement of
mainstream government can result in faster implementation and widespread acceptance; and technology
training is not enough. Organizations need to learn how to plan, implement and monitor programs