Chlorination and safe storage of household drinking water in developing countries to reduce waterborne disease

摘要: Simple, effective and affordable methods are needed to treat safely store non-piped, gathered household water. This study evaluated point-of-use chlorination storage in special plastic containers of water for improving microbial quality reducing diarrhoeal illness consumers living under conditions poor sanitation hygiene. Community families were recruited randomly divided into intervention (household a container) control (no intervention) households. Microbes stored extensively inactivated by 1-5-mg/L doses hypochlorite. Escherichia coli levels waters