Impact on diarrhoeal illness of a community educational intervention to improve drinking water quality in rural communities in Puerto Rico.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Waterborne disease is a major risk for small water supplies in rural settings. This study was done to assess the impact of an educational intervention designed to improve water quality and estimate the contribution of water to the incidence of diarrhoeal disease in poor rural communities in Puerto Rico a two-part study was undertaken.

Methods

An educational intervention was delivered to communities relying on community water supplies. This intervention consisted of student operators and administrators supervising and assisting community members who voluntarily "operate" these systems. These voluntary operators had no previous training and were principally concerned with seeing that some water was delivered. The quality of that water was not something they either u

SUBMITTER: Hunter PR 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC2876105 | biostudies-literature | 2010 Apr

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature