The Safe Water System Project; social marketing and community mobilization in Kenya

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• Alternative Title:
  Social marketing and community mobilization in Kenya
• Corporate Authors:
  National Center for Emerging and Zoonotic Infectious Diseases (U.S.). Division of Foodborne, Waterborne, and Environmental Diseases. ; Population Services International, Kenya
• Description:
  "The SWS project in Kenya began in 2000 with a CARE/Kenya pilot project in Nyanza Province. Results from this project showed a 56% reduction of diarrheal disease risk in rural communities. Based on this successful pilot project, PSI/Kenya began marketing a SWS product, a bottle of sodium hypochlorite solution branded as 'WaterGuard,' in May 2003. Since the start of the program, approximately 10 billion liters of water have been treated with WaterGuard. The WaterGuard product and distribution is cost-recovery, with marketing costs subsidized by PSI internal funding. In addition to WaterGuard, PSI/Kenya markets PUR and Aquatabs. Since 2006, enough PUR has been sold to treat over 20 million liters of water and since 2009, enough Aquatabs have been sold to treat approximately 12 million liters of water." - p. 1
• Subjects:
  Diarrhea/prevention & Control Drinking Water Program Development Sanitation/methods Social Marketing Water Purification Water Supply
• Document Type:
  Pamphlet (or booklet)
• Place as Subject:
  Kenya
• Pages in Document:
  electronic resourc; remote; [1] p. : digital, PDF file (217 KB, 1 p.)
• Collection(s):
  Stephen B. Thacker CDC Library
• Main Document Checksum:
  urn:sha256:bb49166077ea0387efe0a5ebf7870a98fa2f2b889a6392c8166cbc0dc0572bb3
• Download URL:
  https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/11837/cdc_11837_DS1.pdf
• File Type:
  [PDF - 216.53 KB ]