Sustained use of a household-scale water filtration device in rural Cambodia.

@article{Brown2009SustainedUO,
  title={Sustained use of a household-scale water filtration device in rural Cambodia.},
  author={Joe Brown and Sorya Proum and Mark D. Sobsey},
  journal={Journal of water and health},
  year={2009},
  volume={7 3},
  pages={
          404-12
        }
}
The effectiveness of point-of-use water treatment may be limited by declining use over time, particularly when water treatment is introduced via targeted intervention programmes. In order to evaluate the long-term uptake and use of locally produced ceramic water filters in rural Cambodia, we visited households that had received filters as part of NGO-subsidized distribution programmes over a 4 year period from 2002 to 2006. Of the more than 2,000 filters distributed, we visited 506 randomly… Expand
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