Knowledge and Practice of Safe Drinking Water
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Abstract
The study is centred to safe drinking water. The main objectives of the study is
'knowledge and practice of safe drinking water among the people of Budhi Ganga
Tole, Ward No. 4, Itahari Sub-Metropolitan City, Sunsari.
This study is based on descriptive research design. For the study only the primary data
was used. 105 household were selected from the Census Method. This thesis is
structured in five parts: the first part deals with the introduction of title and theoretical
background, second part reviews the related literature of the relevant work , third part
deals with the methodology of the study, fourth part deals with the analysis and
interpretation of data, and fifth part deals with summary, finding conclusion and
recommendations.
In this community of 105 household, where 525 total population were ( 39.04% male
population and 61.53% female population. 69% literate and 28.57% were illiterate;
36.19% received information about safe drinking water from text-books, 28.57% have
got information from TV, 20% have got information from the radio.
Among the respondents, 12.38% of them said the right meaning of water pollution,
18.09% of them told right meaning of safe drinking water. Of them, 75.23% use tube
well water for drinking, 24.76% use tap water. Of them, 11.42% use public source
and 88.7% use private source. Most of the respondents (51.14%) use plastic water pot,
others (48.86%) use metal pots. 47.61 of them wash water pot only with water; 2.85%
use unsafe water, and 42.47 boil, 19.8 don’t know any idea, 62.29% say the source is
'clear', 13% say they drink 4-5 litre of water per day. 84.76% have pit toilet, and
15.23% have ventilated toilet, 14.28% told they protect water from germs. 31.42%
have knowledge about arsenic and 13.33% don’t know about arsenic. 1.90% says
housewife to be responsible for safe drinking water and 48.57% say government
should be responsible for safe drinking water, others (49.53%) say others
(NGO/INGO, Community, etc.); 48.57% dispose dirty water in kitchen garden and
42.5 % dispose dirty water haphazardly.
Local government needs to aware them to improve disposal of dirty water, harms of
dirty water, and practicable encourage water purification methods.