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    Safe Water System (SWS) programs have been implemented in over 35 countries around the world. Through the combined efforts of public and private partnerships, a volume of products sufficient to treat 137 billion liters of water (as of 2013) has been ...
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    National Center for Emerging and Zoonotic Infectious Diseases (U.S.), Division of Foodborne, Waterborne, and Environmental Diseases.
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    "To address the global burden of diarrheal disease, CDC and the Pan American Health Organization (PAHO) developed the Safe Water System (SWS), which protects households from contaminated water by promoting behavior change and providing affordabl...
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    "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 marke...
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    National Center for Emerging and Zoonotic Infectious Diseases (U.S.), Division of Foodborne, Waterborne, and Environmental Diseases.
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    Studies have shown that household water treatment and safe storage interventions improve water quality and reduce diarrheal disease incidence in developing countries. Five of these proven options – chlorination, solar disinfection, ceramic filtrati...
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  5. A Call for Urgent Monitoring of Food and Water Security Based on Relevant Indicators for the Arctic
    Personal Author:
    Nilsson, Lena Maria; Destouni, Georgia; Berner, James; Dudarev, Alexey A.; Mulvad, Gert; Odland, Jon Øyvind; Parkinson, Alan; Tikhonov, Constantine; Rautio, Arja; Evengård, Birgitta;
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