Assessing the Relative Sustainability of Point-of-Use Water Disinfection Technologies for Off-Grid Communities.

ABSTRACT: Point-of-use (POU) water disinfection technologies can be adopted to provide access to safe drinking water by treating water at the household level; however, navigating various POU disinfection technologies can be difficult. While numerous conventional POU devices exist, emerging technologies using novel materials or advanced processes have been under development and claim to be of lower cost with higher treatment capacity. However, it is unclear if these claims are substantiated and how novel technologies compare to conventional ones in terms of cost and environmental impacts when providing the same service (i.e., achieving a necessary level of disinfection for safe drinking water). This research assessed the sustainability of four different POU technologies (chlorination using sodium hyp

SUBMITTER: Elijah BC 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11413886 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature