Development of program implementation, evaluation, and selection tools for household water treatment and safe storage systems in developing countries

Over the past six years, the MIT Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering's Master of Engineering program has undertaken various projects involved with the design and implementation of a wide range of household drinking water treatment and safe storage (HWTS) systems. Projects have been conducted in Nepal, Haiti, Nicaragua, the Dominican Republic and Peru, with the current year's project team focused on Kenya. These individual and team projects have brought the overall HWTS program to a point where program implementation practices are now of great interest. The primary objective of this thesis is to generate program implementation and selection tools to aid in the implementation of HWTS systems for local communities in developing nations. The tools generated are presented as two separate components: (1) a HWTS implementation organization survey and (2) a HWTS technology selection tool. The HWTS implementation organization survey is intended primarily for information collection on currently implemented HWTS programs, but is also applicable for pre-implementation scenarios. In late 2004, in collaboration with the Implementation Working Group of the WHO International Network to Promote Household Drinking Water and Safe Storage ("The Network"), the MIT team developed a draft implementation organization survey.

Department dc:contributor.department

Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Dept. of Civil and Environmental Engineering.

Grantor dc:publisher

Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Year dc:date.issued

2005

Author dc:creator

• Baffrey, Robert Michael Nuval, 1977-

Advisor dc:contributor.advisor

• Susan Murcott.

• Civil and Environmental Engineering.

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• M.I.T. theses are protected by copyright. They may be viewed from this source for any purpose, but reproduction or distribution in any format is prohibited without written permission. See provided URL for inquiries about permission.

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• http://dspace.mit.edu/handle/1721.1/7582

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en_US

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http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/28942

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oai:dspace.mit.edu:1721.1/28942