Social Impact Study on Piped-Connection Services for Safely Managed Water

Optimized Piped Connection (OPC) stations are designed with a distribution network that extends throughout the community to make the cost of the connections to the home equitable3. [...] The majority of those surveyed (58%) were over 46, while 32% were between the ages of 36-45 and 10% were between the ages of 26-35. [...] FIGURE 1 : Number of Visitors NUMBER OF VISITORS TO EACH WATER SOURCE IN PRE- AND POST-PERIOD in Pre- and Post- 60 Period 57 55 47 38 39 33 31 0 0 COMMUNITY WATER GROUNDWATER SACHET WATER RAINWATER PIPED CONNECTION STANDPIPE FIGURE 2: Number of Visits NUMBER OF VISITS TO EACH WATER SOURCE IN PRE- AND POST-PERIOD in Pre- and Post- 397 Period 221 230 91 66 85 63 60 0 0 COMMUNITY WATER GROUNDWATER SA. [...] Figure 5 shows a similar trend as our other subjective well-being questions: 68% of respondents were not happy in the pre-period, and 73% of respondents in the post-period reported being happy with their life as a woman. [...] • Expansion of piped-connection program to build and retrofit more stations to accommodate 500+ connections • Ramp-up of piped-connection sales at existing stations to increase number of connections • Onboard customer service representatives at OPC stations to continue ongoing evaluation of impact and perceptions of piped-connection customers • Collaborate with other small water enterprise impleme.