Packaged water: optimizing local processes for sustainable water delivery in developing nations.

ABSTRACT: With so much global attention and commitment towards making the Water and Sanitation targets of the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) a reality, available figures seem to speak on the contrary as they reveal a large disparity between the expected and what currently obtains especially in developing countries. As studies have shown that the standard industrialized world model for delivery of safe drinking water technology may not be affordable in much of the developing world, packaged water is suggested as a low cost, readily available alternative water provision that could help bridge the gap. Despite the established roles that this drinking water source plays in developing nations, its importance is however significantly underestimated, and the source considered unimproved going by 'inte

SUBMITTER: Dada AC 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC3161851 | biostudies-literature | 2011 Jul

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature