|Special Public Works Programmes - SPWP - Community Water Supply
- A Community Participation Training Element for SPWP User
Beneficiaries (ILO - UNDP, 1987, 100 p.)| |SESSION 3: The
Relationship of Water, Sanitation and Disease - Water-Washed and
Water-Site-Related Disease| In a certain village there is plenty
of water available during the wet season because people catch
rain from their roofs into tanks. There are few skin infections
at this time. During the dry season, however, the only source of
water is a clean spring that is one-half hour walk away. During
this time the women notice that their children have more sores
and skin infections. Some are very painful. Even the adults
notice more infections. When there are sores on their feet or
hands, they are sometimes unable to work. The villagers also
find that there is still a lot of diarrhoeal disease during the
dry season. They used to believe that most diarrhoea occurred
during the wet season. Now they wonder why there is so much
during the dry season too