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Making sustainable water and sanitation in the Peruvian Andes: an intervention model

Author(s) -

M. J. Geraldes Campos

Publication year - 2008

Publication title -

journal of water and health

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 0.482

H-Index - 59

eISSN - 1996-7829

pISSN - 1477-8920

DOI - 10.2166/wh.2008.00034

Subject(s) - sanitation , functional illiteracy , sustainability , water supply , intervention (counseling) , business , environmental planning , resource (disambiguation) , rural area , rainwater harvesting , water resource management , economic growth , environmental resource management , geography , engineering , environmental engineering , environmental science , political science , medicine , computer science , nursing , economics , ecology , computer network , law , biology

Sustainability of water supplies in remote rural communities is problematic and resource consuming. CARE has a long history of working hand in hand with remote rural communities and devising programs tailored to their needs. We present here an intervention that integrates development of water supplies and sanitation, with operation and maintenance skills development and training of health promoters that can educate from within the community that ensures the sustainability of drinking water supply systems in rural communities. The training used is innovative in that it uses a series of video-workshops which are found to be particularly useful in communities with high illiteracy rates.

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