ArticleJournal of health, population, and nutrition2006
Household pasteurization of drinking-water: the chulli water-treatment system.
Article in Journal of health, population, and nutrition, 2006. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 6 papers, 2 of them syntheses that pooled it.
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6 citing papers in PubMed, 2 syntheses or guidelines pooled it.
- Wilderness Medical Society Clinical Practice Guidelines on Water Treatment for Wilderness, International Travel, and Austere Situations: 2024 Update.Wilderness & environmental medicine · 2024Guideline
- Wilderness Medical Society Clinical Practice Guidelines for Water Disinfection for Wilderness, International Travel, and Austere Situations.Wilderness & environmental medicine · 2019Guideline
- Building-integrated solar water disinfection system for reliable year-round drinking water safety.NPJ clean water · 2026Article
- Efficacy and self-similarity of SARS-CoV-2 thermal decontamination.Journal of hazardous materials · 2022Article
- Comparative analysis of solar pasteurization versus solar disinfection for the treatment of harvested rainwater.BMC microbiology · 2016Article
- Deadly wells: taking action to protect future generations.Journal of health, population, and nutrition · 2006Article
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Abstract
A simple flow-through system has been developed which makes use of wasted heat generated in traditional clay ovens (chullis) to pasteurize surface water. A hollow aluminium coil is built into the clay chulli, and water is passed through the coil during normal cooking events. By adjusting the flow rate, effluent temperature can be maintained at approximately 70 degrees C. Laboratory testing, along with over 400 field tests on chulli systems deployed in six pilot villages, showed that the treatment completely inactivated thermotolerant coliforms. The chulli system produces up to 90 litres per day of treated water at the household level, without any additional time or fuel requirement. The technology has been developed to provide a safe alternative source of drinking-water in arsenic-contaminated areas, but can also have wide application wherever people consume microbiologically-contaminated water.
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