Community dialogue can show the way to meeting water needs: a South African case

By Jennifer Hove, PhD student in the school of public health, University of the Witwatersrand
Kathleen Kahn, Professor: Health and Population Division, School of Public Health, University of the Witwatersrand
Lucia D'Ambruoso, Lecturer in Global Health, University of Aberdeen
Rhian Twine, Honorary Senior Researcher in the MRC/Wits Rural Public Health and Health Transitions Research Unit (Agincourt), University of the Witwatersrand

About 842,000 people die every year from diarrhoea in rural communities because they lack safe water and adequate sanitation. Water and sanitation are essential in preventing a number of other infections and hygiene-related diseases.

In South Africa,…

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