Cargando…

Water Scarcity and Water Quality: Identifying Potential Unintended Harms and Mitigation Strategies in the Implementation of the Biosand Filter in Rural Tanzania

Bottom-up public health interventions are needed which are built on an understanding of community perspectives. Project SHINE is a community-based participatory action research intervention focused on developing sustainable water, sanitation, and hygiene strategies with Maasai pastoralists in Tanzan...

Descripción completa

Detalles Bibliográficos
Autores principales: Hovden, Lise, Paasche, Tina, Nyanza, Elias Charles, Bastien, Sheri
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: SAGE Publications 2020
Materias:
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7410274/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32449474
http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1049732320918860
_version_ 1783568210300239872
author Hovden, Lise
Paasche, Tina
Nyanza, Elias Charles
Bastien, Sheri
author_facet Hovden, Lise
Paasche, Tina
Nyanza, Elias Charles
Bastien, Sheri
author_sort Hovden, Lise
collection PubMed
description Bottom-up public health interventions are needed which are built on an understanding of community perspectives. Project SHINE is a community-based participatory action research intervention focused on developing sustainable water, sanitation, and hygiene strategies with Maasai pastoralists in Tanzania. The aim of the study is to understand perceptions related to water quality and scarcity as well as to assess the potential of the Biosand Filter as a low-cost, low-tech water treatment option. To avoid unintended harms, the community was engaged in identifying potential harms and mitigation strategies prior to the implementation of the filter.Two in-depth interviews and two group discussions were analyzed using thematic content analysis, while three think tanks were analyzed using directed content analysis. The findings highlight a range of concerns regarding water scarcity and quality. The think tank approach was an effective means of engaging the community in identifying potential unintended harms across four dimensions: the physical, psychosocial, economic, and cultural contexts. In addition, two external themes emerged as salient: political harm and harm by omission.
format Online
Article
Text
id pubmed-7410274
institution National Center for Biotechnology Information
language English
publishDate 2020
publisher SAGE Publications
record_format MEDLINE/PubMed
spelling pubmed-74102742020-08-19 Water Scarcity and Water Quality: Identifying Potential Unintended Harms and Mitigation Strategies in the Implementation of the Biosand Filter in Rural Tanzania Hovden, Lise Paasche, Tina Nyanza, Elias Charles Bastien, Sheri Qual Health Res Research Articles Bottom-up public health interventions are needed which are built on an understanding of community perspectives. Project SHINE is a community-based participatory action research intervention focused on developing sustainable water, sanitation, and hygiene strategies with Maasai pastoralists in Tanzania. The aim of the study is to understand perceptions related to water quality and scarcity as well as to assess the potential of the Biosand Filter as a low-cost, low-tech water treatment option. To avoid unintended harms, the community was engaged in identifying potential harms and mitigation strategies prior to the implementation of the filter.Two in-depth interviews and two group discussions were analyzed using thematic content analysis, while three think tanks were analyzed using directed content analysis. The findings highlight a range of concerns regarding water scarcity and quality. The think tank approach was an effective means of engaging the community in identifying potential unintended harms across four dimensions: the physical, psychosocial, economic, and cultural contexts. In addition, two external themes emerged as salient: political harm and harm by omission. SAGE Publications 2020-05-25 2020-09 /pmc/articles/PMC7410274/ /pubmed/32449474 http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1049732320918860 Text en © The Author(s) 2020 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ This article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) which permits any use, reproduction and distribution of the work without further permission provided the original work is attributed as specified on the SAGE and Open Access pages (https://us.sagepub.com/en-us/nam/open-access-at-sage).
spellingShingle Research Articles
Hovden, Lise
Paasche, Tina
Nyanza, Elias Charles
Bastien, Sheri
Water Scarcity and Water Quality: Identifying Potential Unintended Harms and Mitigation Strategies in the Implementation of the Biosand Filter in Rural Tanzania
title Water Scarcity and Water Quality: Identifying Potential Unintended Harms and Mitigation Strategies in the Implementation of the Biosand Filter in Rural Tanzania
title_full Water Scarcity and Water Quality: Identifying Potential Unintended Harms and Mitigation Strategies in the Implementation of the Biosand Filter in Rural Tanzania
title_fullStr Water Scarcity and Water Quality: Identifying Potential Unintended Harms and Mitigation Strategies in the Implementation of the Biosand Filter in Rural Tanzania
title_full_unstemmed Water Scarcity and Water Quality: Identifying Potential Unintended Harms and Mitigation Strategies in the Implementation of the Biosand Filter in Rural Tanzania
title_short Water Scarcity and Water Quality: Identifying Potential Unintended Harms and Mitigation Strategies in the Implementation of the Biosand Filter in Rural Tanzania
title_sort water scarcity and water quality: identifying potential unintended harms and mitigation strategies in the implementation of the biosand filter in rural tanzania
topic Research Articles
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7410274/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32449474
http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1049732320918860
work_keys_str_mv AT hovdenlise waterscarcityandwaterqualityidentifyingpotentialunintendedharmsandmitigationstrategiesintheimplementationofthebiosandfilterinruraltanzania
AT paaschetina waterscarcityandwaterqualityidentifyingpotentialunintendedharmsandmitigationstrategiesintheimplementationofthebiosandfilterinruraltanzania
AT nyanzaeliascharles waterscarcityandwaterqualityidentifyingpotentialunintendedharmsandmitigationstrategiesintheimplementationofthebiosandfilterinruraltanzania
AT bastiensheri waterscarcityandwaterqualityidentifyingpotentialunintendedharmsandmitigationstrategiesintheimplementationofthebiosandfilterinruraltanzania