Comments on: Steve Luby – Household Water Treatment: A failed public health strategy?

By: Bob Anderson

Bob Anderson — Wed, 15 May 2013 23:31:43 +0000

Excellent pdf, water is so important and we need to start treating it like gold because it is that precious. Liquid gold is truly a name to describe something that most don’t realize we are short on in the first place. I like the idea of getting more awareness about water and its importance out to everyone on the web. Nice article.

By: Anna

Anna — Tue, 16 Oct 2012 01:05:51 +0000

Thanks for sharing this post to us. This is really informative and helpful about water conditioning.

By: Evans Tembo

Evans Tembo — Sun, 30 Sep 2012 09:39:14 +0000

The main reason why household water treatment seem to be failing at community is because it is not coupled hygiene education which focus on changing the behaviour of the communities by understanding the consequences of drinking contaminated water.

By: Tina

Tina — Fri, 21 Sep 2012 05:47:35 +0000

Water demand is increasing. That is why water companies must have some water softener to have a safe and healthy drinking water.

By: Eric Mintz

Eric Mintz — Fri, 14 Sep 2012 15:15:09 +0000

The slides are very clear and entertaining, as audiences familiar with Dr. Luby’s presentations have come to expect. It is hard to make a well-informed comment without the benefit (and pleasure) of having heard Steve’s remarks in the subject, but given the scope and magniitude of morbidity and mortality attributed to preventable waterborne diseases, it is hard to argue that an intervention which prevents even a small fraction of those deaths and DALY’s at a small cost is not value added. As new options for HWTS methods and product dissemination have come into play, the proportion of deaths and DALY’s prevented increases, and there is plenty of growth potential (for hardware and software) in a field that is still relatively new. That said, universal access to piped, treated water and safe sanitation remains the ultimate goal. Can the weakness is in currently available PoU practices be strengthened and can PoU treatment be integrated synergystically with other health interventions and serve as a step on the “ladder” towards universal access? I hope so, because I don’t see more viable alternatives on the horizon, especially in the current economic climate. (PoU treatment may also be a helpful aid to coping with crises precipitated by the current, and rapidly worsening meteorologic climate).