2014
DOI: 10.2166/washdev.2014.131
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Risk perception, choice of drinking water and water treatment: evidence from Kenyan towns

Abstract: This study uses household survey data from four Kenyan towns to examine the effect of households' characteristics and risk perceptions on their decision to treat/filter water as well as their choice of main drinking water source. Because the two decisions may be jointly made by the household, a seemingly unrelated bivariate probit model is estimated. It turns out that treating non-piped water and using piped water as a main drinking water source are substitutes. The evidence supports the finding that perceived… Show more

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“…Women in particular seem more likely to struggle with the trade-off between convenience-of-access and perceived quality. Risk perception was recently shown to be correlated with propensity for treating non-piped drinking water in Kenya (Onjala, Ndiritu, & Stage, 2014), and our results suggest the potential for a drinking water intervention that educates communities about water quality and teaches residents how to treat their water. But alternative household water treatment technologiesdsuch as ultraviolet light or ceramic filtration, neither of which treat water instantaneouslydmay be hard-pressed to compete in an urban setting with the convenience and ubiquity of chilled, vended sachet water.…”
Section: Resultssupporting
confidence: 53%
“…Women in particular seem more likely to struggle with the trade-off between convenience-of-access and perceived quality. Risk perception was recently shown to be correlated with propensity for treating non-piped drinking water in Kenya (Onjala, Ndiritu, & Stage, 2014), and our results suggest the potential for a drinking water intervention that educates communities about water quality and teaches residents how to treat their water. But alternative household water treatment technologiesdsuch as ultraviolet light or ceramic filtration, neither of which treat water instantaneouslydmay be hard-pressed to compete in an urban setting with the convenience and ubiquity of chilled, vended sachet water.…”
Section: Resultssupporting
confidence: 53%
“…This often leads to household disconnection of water supply. As such, many households switch to public stand pipes and springs as alternative sources of drinking water supply is similar to a study in Kenya where community preferred to use alternative sources because of high connection fees [15].…”
Section: Discussionsupporting
confidence: 53%
“…Other studies on drinking water services in emerging or less developed countries, point out that, although progress is observed worldwide in terms of a greater access to drinking water through the development of infrastructure [6], there is a growing interest, mainly among consumers, in having access to improved water sources and greater continuity in the service [7]. There is a relative abundance of international work examining improvement in access to running water [8][9][10]. However, studies examining water distribution among households and household groups are scarce.…”
Section: Introductionmentioning
confidence: 99%