Our End-Users as Co-Designers: Development of the Safe Water Project Reference Design and Design Guidelines

PATH’s Safe Water Project is implementing innovative methods to enable commercial enterprises to produce, distribute, sell, and maintain effective household water treatment and safe storage (HWTS) products for low-income populations in multiple developing countries around the world. This project brief summarizes PATH's product development process to design an HWTS device that specifically meets the needs of low- and middle-income families. This brief also describes PATH's efforts to create a set of design guidelines for HWTS devices.

Author(s): Wittet S

Corporate author(s): PATH

Publication date: September 2011

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Our End-Users as Co-Designers

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This publication is part of the series Safe water briefs

Region: Global

See also: Health technologies > Safe water

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