Impact studies: The importance of safe drinking water at the point of consumption; Impact on diarrhoeal diseases for children under 5 and school absence rates for children between 6 to 12, 2014. 1001Fontaines.
1001fontaines, a non-profit organisation created in 2004, contributes to the global effort of international solidarity improving access to safe drinking water in small rural communities. It aims to improve the health of these populations by enabling them to meet their needs for safe drinking water in a sustainable manner and without any specific infrastructure or expertise.The major objective of these studies was to measure to what extent the health of the beneficiaries of the 1001fontaines services were improved by such services.
More specifically, two populations were observed:- Children between 6 and 12, where attendance at school (School study) was measured;- Children under 5, within their families (Cohort study), for whom episodes of diarrhoeal diseases were reported and correlated to the water source used by the family.
For the School study, attendance rates were extracted from the attendance reports of each school.These groups were observed during a 6 month period, during which each family of the Cohort study was visited twice a month in order to record potential diarrhoeal diseases.
