Background Lack of access to and use of water, sanitation and hygiene (WASH) cause 1.6
million deaths every year, of which 1.2 million are due to gastrointestinal illnesses like …

We consider health and environmental quality in developing countries, where limited
resources constrain behaviors that combat enormously burdensome health challenges. We …

OBJECTIVE: To determine the effectiveness of a sanitation campaign that combines"
shaming"(ie emotional motivators) with subsidies for poor households in rural Orissa, an …

Background The promotion of household water treatment and handwashing with soap has
led to large reductions in child diarrhoea in randomized efficacy trials. Currently, we know …

Community-led total sanitation (CLTS) is a participatory approach to addressing open
defecation that has demonstrated success in previous studies, yet there is no research on …

Empirical measurement of interventions to address significant global health and
development problems is necessary to ensure that resources are applied appropriately …

OBJECTIVE: To evaluate and quantify the economic benefits attributable to improvements in
water supply and sanitation in rural India. METHODS: We combined propensity-score “pre …

Sanitation improvement is crucial in saving lives that are lost due to water contamination.
Progress towards achieving full sanitation coverage is still slow in low-income informal …

Over 5 billion people worldwide are exposed to unsafe water. Given the obstacles to
ensuring sustainable improvements in water supply infrastructure and the unhygienic …

Providing piped water and sewer services is extremely capital intensive, yet most of this
infrastructure is buried, hidden from citizens and ratepayers. Roman emperors built …