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26 maj 2022 · By 2017, “sachet water”—machine-sealed 500ml plastic bags of drinking water—was consumed by 33% of Ghanaian households. Reliance on sachet water has previously been associated with the urban poor, yet recent evidence suggests a customer base which crosses socioeconomic lines.
This paper reviews recent shifts in drinking water, drawing upon data from the 2003 and 2008 Demographic and Health Surveys, and provides an overview of the history, economics, quality, and...
This paper reviews recent shifts in drinking water, drawing upon data from the 2003 and 2008 Demographic and Health Surveys, and provides an overview of the history, economics, quality, and regulation of sachet water in Ghana’s Accra-Tema Metropolitan Area.
26 maj 2022 · By 2017, “sachet water”—machine-sealed 500ml plastic bags of drinking water—was consumed by 33% of Ghanaian households.
26 kwi 2015 · Around the time the scooped water was going out of style, the sachet-packing machines became available, and now sachets are the primary unit of water in Ghana and the dominant medium of...
4 lut 2020 · In Ghana, one study conducted ad hoc interviews with several producers (Stoler et al. 2012), finding they packaged sachets from piped water, while a more recent study (Gronwall & Oduro-Kwarteng 2018) found several sachet manufacturers packaging groundwater from boreholes.
1 mar 2012 · Sachet water represents a key interruption to fecal contamination and exposure pathways by replacing consumption of poorly stored water in the home. Sachets essentially serve as an inadvertent safe storage vehicle, whether purchased on the street for immediate consumption or in bulk for home use.
