ArticleThe American journal of tropical medicine and hygiene2012
The effect of water quality testing on household behavior: evidence from an experiment in rural India.
Article in The American journal of tropical medicine and hygiene, 2012. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. It is linked to 2 registered trials, which are not on this map. Cited by 10 papers.
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Cluster Randomized Trial of Low-cost Microbiological Water Test Kits
One Nutrition in Complex Environments (ONCE), a Cluster-randomized Trial of Nutrition Education and Access to Simple Supportive Technologies in Improving Agricultural Practices and Water Quality Management
Who cites it
10 citing papers in PubMed.
- The Impact and Sustainability of Multisector Interventions to Improve Water Quality and Food Safety in Complex Environments: A Cluster-Randomized Controlled Trial in Northern Uganda.The American journal of tropical medicine and hygiene · 2025Trial
- Clear Waters, Bright Futures: Do Low-Cost Information Interventions Increase Health Preventive Behaviors.Health economics · 2025Trial
- Product preferences and willingness to pay for potable water delivery: Experimental evidence from rural Bihar, India.PloS one · 2023Article
- Fear, Efficacy, and Environmental Health Risk Reporting: Complex Responses to Water Quality Test Results in Low-Income Communities.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2022Article
- Toward co-design of an AI solution for detection of diarrheal pathogens in drinking water within resource-constrained contexts.PLOS global public health · 2022Article
- Interventions promoting uptake of water, sanitation and hygiene (WASH) technologies in low- and middle-income countries: An evidence and gap map of effectiveness studies.Campbell systematic reviews · 2021Article
- Household coping strategies associated with unreliable water supplies and diarrhea in Ecuador, an upper-middle-income country.Water research · 2020Article
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- Experimental evidence on promotion of electric and improved biomass cookstoves.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2019Article
- A culture-dependent and metagenomic approach of household drinking water from the source to point of use in a developing country.Water research X · 2019Article
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Abstract
How does specific information about contamination in a household's drinking water affect water handling behavior? We randomly split a sample of households in rural Andhra Pradesh, India. The treatment group observed a contamination test of the drinking water in their own household storage vessel; while they were waiting for their results, they were also provided with a list of actions that they could take to remedy contamination if they tested positive. The control group received no test or guidance. The drinking water of nearly 90% of tested households showed evidence of contamination by fecal bacteria. They reacted by purchasing more of their water from commercial sources but not by making more time-intensive adjustments. Providing salient evidence of risk increases demand for commercial clean water.
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