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Socio-cultural factors affecting the use of alternative water sources in an arsenic contaminated rural village in Bangladesh
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| Abstract | The contamination of groundwater by arsenic poses serious health risk to residents in Bangladesh. The Bangladesh Government, international organizations, and other various groups actively conduct miti...gation efforts. One major means of arsenic mitigation is the construction of alternative water supply options that provide suffering residents with arsenic- safe drinking water. This paper presents the detailed analysis of the behavior of the use of alternative water sources in a rural village in Jessore district based on village surveys conducted by our research team. In this village, three alternative water sources had been installed at the time of the survey. While many households actively use the water of the safe sources, there are other households who do not take the opportunity. The most common reason for not using the water source is distance, namely, too far to fetch. The analysis, however, finds other socio-cultural reasons for no use, such as the boundaries of social groups and the cultural restriction of female behavior. Based on these analyses, we conclude that in order to supply safe water more efficiently, the mitigation plan needs to address such socio-cultural factors in the siting of new water sources. Moreover, these alternative water sources for collective use alone cannot supply safe water to an entire village because households who cannot and will not go to the collective water sources for varied reasons are scattered. Therefore, it is necessary to develop other types of smaller water sources to supply safe water to cover these isolated households.show more |
| Table of Contents | 1 . はじめに 2. M村：調査対象地 3. 調査方法 4. M村西集落の水利用の現状 5. 考察 6. 文化的理解に基づく砒素被害軽減対策に向けて 7. むすび |
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| Created Date | 2020.05.20 |
| Modified Date | 2023.06.21 |