IWHA Works to Improve Health and Save Lives
Those at risk do not have access to effective and inexpensive methods to determine if water is safe to drink. Testing laboratories are usually not available to those most in need because of other priorities, the high cost of testing and limited resources.
IWHA addresses these problems through safe water projects including water testing training programs for residents of under served rural and urban communities, staff of national and international non governmental agencies such as UN-Habitat, government health agencies and local water committees.
Training participants are taught:
- the connection between fecal material in water and the occurrence of disease; and
- the relationship of safe drinking water to hygiene and sanitation.
Efficient and practical hands-on training allows most community residents to test water sources on-site and demonstrates in a graphic way the absence or presence of Escherichia -coli (E•coli) which indicates fecal contamination.