Evaluation of safety water patterns for households in the Northern mountainous area to improve public health

ABSTRACT

The research evaluated safety water pattern of 178 households in 3 provinces Lai Chau, Son La, Hoa Binh. 73.7% of them knew about safety water program in their local, 24% did not know about it (12.6% in Lai Chau, 1.1% in Son La). Main pattern investments were building common water containers (68.3%) and water pipe (15%). 6.7% of investments were reserved fro drilled wells and they mainly concentrated in Hoa Bình province. Safety water program was used by 80% of surveyed households. 42% subjects thought that water supply was sufficiency and 24.3% thought sometime it was insufficiency. Reasons that water of the program was not used included unavailable (46.4%), unnecessary (25%), and unaffordable. 93.2% of subjects thought that it was necessary to invest on safety water program