Potential for Scaling Up Water Purification Sample Clauses

Potential for Scaling Up Water Purification. ‌ As mentioned in Section 6.2.2, the uniqueness of EcoFiltro’s local manufacturing of filters and well-established supply distribution chain really lends itself to further expansion. Unlike attempts by the Guatemalan government to scale up chlorination, or attempts by researchers to scale up the use of flocculant-disinfectant (Xxxxxxx et al., 2006; Xxxx et al., 2008), the taste of water purified through the EcoFiltro is unchanged and the wide-reaching distribution chain permits for effective scaling, potentially even to the national level. This indicates that these factors are pertinent to the scaling up of water purification in Guatemala, but such findings could be extrapolated to similar contexts in Latin America and around the world, especially through leveraging EcoFiltro’s wide global reach. Given that the 2015 NAPA-OT Field School discovered that EcoFiltro clients did indeed notice a decrease in the incidence of diarrhea (Handojo et al., 2015), the scaling up of the EcoFiltro can truly have monumental effects on the burden of diarrheal disease in Guatemala specifically, but potentially elsewhere too. The Foldscope component of the application can also provide the much-needed visual evidence of water contamination to further justify the use of a water purification technology. Therefore, this novel approach to water quality testing may in fact have a direct effect on the use of water purification strategies worldwide. Nevertheless, as discussed above, this ultimately depends on a stricter evaluation of the water testing capability in the coming months.