Multidimensional Measurement of Household Water Poverty in a Mumbai Slum: Looking Beyond Water Quality.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

A focus on bacterial contamination has limited many studies of water service delivery in slums, with diarrheal illness being the presumed outcome of interest. We conducted a mixed methods study in a slum of 12,000 people in Mumbai, India to measure deficiencies in a broader array of water service delivery indicators and their adverse life impacts on the slum's residents.

Methods

Six focus group discussions and 40 individual qualitative interviews were conducted using purposeful sampling. Quantitative data on water indicators-quantity, access, price, reliability, and equity-were collected via a structured survey of 521 households selected using population-based random sampling.

Results

In addition to negatively affecting health, the qualitative findings revea

SUBMITTER: Subbaraman R 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4511227 | biostudies-literature | 2015

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature