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- Findings From Investigation of User Experience With Household Water Treatment and Storage Products in Andhra Pradesh, India
This is part of a series of project briefs discussing the activities, research findings, and field experiences of PATH’s Safe Water Project. The briefs are available in two formats: one for onscreen viewing and one for booklet-style printing.
Author: Kols A
Publication date: July 2008
Region: Global
Part of series: Safe water briefs
- Formative Household Research in Andhra Pradesh
This document is part of a series of project briefs discussing the activities, research findings, and field experiences of PATH’s Safe Water Project. The project briefs are available in two formats: one for onscreen viewing and one for booklet-style printing.
Author: Kols A
Publication date: June 2009
Region: Asia
Part of series: Safe water briefs
- Global Technology Landscape of Household Water Treatment and Safe Storage Products
PATH's Safe Water Project works to catalyze changes within the household water treatment and storage product category, specifically to benefit low-income populations. This matrix portrays a global landscape of technologies both presently existing and under development by numerous researchers and manufacturers.
Publication date: October 2010
Region: Global
Part of series: Safe water briefs
- Going With the Flow: Understanding the Nuances of the HWTS Consumer Market
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 poster summarizes PATH's market segmentation efforts to understand the various consumer groups for HWTS products in parts of Cambodia and Vietnam. This poster was presented at the Water and Health: Where Science Meets Policy conference hosted by the University of North Carolina Water Institute in October 2011.
Author: Guy M, Elliott T
Publication date: October 2011
Region: Asia
- Household Water Treatment and Safe Storage in Vietnam: Exploring Commercial Strategies to Market Safe Water Products
This publication details PATH's projects to improve household water treatment and storage in Vietnam, including findings and lessons learned from research and demonstration projects.
Author: Robertson J
Publication date: October 2011
Region: Asia
Part of series: Safe water briefs
- Innovating to Improve Health: PATH Develops and Delivers Novel Solutions for Those Who Need Them Most
This fact sheet provides an overview of PATH's work to develop and deliver innovative health solutions for those who need them most. These solutions range from developing and introducing affordable, appropriate technologies to creating conditions that lead to widespread use of proven methods.
Publication date: April 2012
Region: Global
- Join Up, Scale Up: How Integration Can Defeat Disease and Poverty
Co-authored by Action Against Hunger, Action for Global Health, End Water Poverty, PATH, Tearfund, and WaterAid, this report highlights examples across 17 countries of how bringing different development approaches together—or integration—is working to help tackle poverty and disease, and calls on the international community, including donor and developing-country governments, to prioritize and invest in these joined-up programs.
Publication date: September 2011
Region: Global
- Kenya Country Program Website
This website about PATH’s Kenya country program provides an overview of the program and its featured projects. See other PATH program websites.
Publication date: 2013
Region: Africa
Part of series: PATH's program websites
- Market Assessment of Household Water Treatment Products in Eight African Countries
PATH’s Safe Water Project is implementing an innovative project to enable commercial enterprises to produce, distribute, sell, and maintain effective household water treatment and storage products for low-income populations in multiple developing countries. This project brief summarizes the findings and implications of an initial market assessment conducted in 2009 across eight African countries. It is available in two formats: one for onscreen viewing and one for booklet-style printing.
Author: Kols A
Publication date: August 2010
Region: Africa
Part of series: Safe water briefs
- Microfinancing Boosts Uptake of Water Filters: PATH Partners With Indian Household Water Treatment and Safe Storage Manufacturer and Microfinance Organization to Expand Use of Water Filters That Can Reduce Diarrheal Disease
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 products for low-income populations in multiple developing countries around the world. This fact sheet summarizes PATH's work with Hindustan Unilever to explore the viability of distributing household water treatment devices through a microfinance model in India.
Publication date: January 2012
Region: Asia
- New Design of the Ceramic Water Pot
Part of the Technology Updates series, this fact sheet describes PATH's work on a new ceramic water pot designed to filter water for consumers in low-resource settings.
Publication date: April 2012
Region: Global
Part of series: Technology Updates
- New Water Filters for Low-Income Households
This fact sheet describes the partnership between PATH and three water treatment device manufacturers who have created new water filters based on PATH's prototype.
Publication date: December 2012
Region: Global
- Newly Designed Ceramic Water Pot for Low-Income Households
PATH’s Safe Water Project is implementing innovative methods to enable commercial enterprises to produce, distribute, sell, and maintain effective household water treatment and storage products for low-income populations in multiple developing countries around the world. This project brief summarizes PATH's product development process, in partnership with Hydrologic, a Cambodian manufacturer, to improve the ceramic water purifier for low- and middle-income families.
Author: Murray M
Publication date: September 2011
Region: Asia
Part of series: Safe water briefs
- 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: Wittet S
Publication date: September 2011
Region: Global
Part of series: Safe water briefs
- PATH in China: Joining With Diverse Partners to Create Sustainable Health Solutions
This brochure outlines PATH's work in China, with emphasis on public-private partnerships for product development. Areas of focus include vaccines and immunization, health technologies, and women's health.
Publication date: November 2012
Region: Asia
- PATH in India: Changing the Face of Health in India and Around the World
This brochure outlines PATH's work in India, where we're addressing a range of health problems while leveraging the country’s growing capacity to innovate and contribute to global health solutions.
Publication date: November 2012
Region: Asia
- PATH in Kenya: Innovation and Partnership to Improve Health
This brochure outlines PATH's work to help Kenya's health care sector improve services and strengthen community networks while empowering Kenyans to adopt healthier lifestyles. PATH offers novel approaches and technical expertise to address a range of health challenges, and we manage projects that reach millions of Kenyans.
Publication date: November 2011
Region: Africa
- PATH in South Africa: A Comprehensive Approach to Improving Maternal and Child Health
This brochure outlines PATH's work to improve health in South Africa by bringing effective interventions to the people who need them most. Our interventions make birth safer, enhance infant and young child health, combat HIV/AIDS, strengthen health systems, and support improved sanitation.
Publication date: October 2011
Region: Africa
- PATH Safe Water Program: An Overview of PATH’s Sanitation Efforts
This is part of a series of project briefs discussing the activities, research findings, and field experiences of PATH’s Safe Water Project.
Publication date: February 2010
Region: Global
Part of series: Safe water briefs
- PATH Safe Water Project's Monitoring and Evaluation Framework: Testing Market-Based Solutions in Four Countries
PATH’s Safe Water Project is implementing innovative methods to enable commercial enterprises to produce, distribute, sell, and maintain effective household water treatment and storage products for low-income populations in multiple developing countries around the world. This technical brief summarizes the monitoring and evaluation framework that was used to analyze the success of various market-based approaches that PATH tested in India, Cambodia, Vietnam, and Kenya.
Author: Kols A
Publication date: November 2011
Region: Global
Part of series: Safe water briefs

