Improving health through Multiple Use water Services (MUS)

Improving health throughMultiple Use water Services (MUS)

Eline Boelee (IWMI)International Symposium on Multiple Use water Services

Addis Ababa, Ethiopia

5 November 2008

MUS symposium 5Nov08

Different approach in MUS

Selection of appropriate source

Attention to water quantities as well as quality

Additional benefits • Supporting services

• Nutrition

• Time gains

Only effective in conjunction with• Environmental sanitation

• Health and hygiene education


Positive and negative impacts

Improved hygiene

Exposure to disease

Photo Credit:Ronald Loeve

Photo Credit: Henry Madsen


Risks

Drowning

Absence from school

Photo Credit: Menno Houtstra

Photo Credit: Eline Boelee



Ensuring adequate quantities

Based on actual demand• Present & future• Drinking water• Domestic uses• Sanitation• Agriculture

• Formal irrigation• Home gardens• Livestock

• Other productive uses

Multiple sources for multiple uses• Capacity• Accessibility• Including re-use

Storage


Storage


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Ensuring adequate quality

Each use has quality demands• Chemical

• Biological

• Perception

Multiple sources for multiple uses• Catchment protection

Systemwide: lowest necessary quality

Drinking• Separate source

• Deterioration during transport and storage

• Home water treatment

Photo Credit: Peter McCornick

Photo Credit: Michiko Ebato


Multiple sources for multiple uses




Water treatment



Water treatment

Photo Credit: Pauline Scheelbeek

Photo Credit: Ephrem Guchi


All in one: multipurpose system


Improving health through multiple use water services

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Improving health through Multiple Use water Services (MUS)