Examining the Role of Clean Drinking Water Plants in Mitigating Drinking Water-Induced Morbidity

Aisha Aziz, Kashif Akram, Muhammad Abrar ul Haq (), Iqbal Thonse Hawaldar and Mustafa Raza Rabbani
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Aisha Aziz: Institute of Business, Management, and Administrative Sciences, The Islamia University of Bahawalpur, Bahawalpur 63100, Pakistan
Kashif Akram: Institute of Business, Management, and Administrative Sciences, The Islamia University of Bahawalpur, Bahawalpur 63100, Pakistan
Muhammad Abrar ul Haq: Department of Economics and Finance, College of Business Administration, University of Bahrain, Sakheer 32038, Bahrain
Iqbal Thonse Hawaldar: Department of Accounting & Finance, College of Business Administration, Kingdom University, Riffa 40434, Bahrain
Mustafa Raza Rabbani: Department of Economics and Finance, College of Business Administration, University of Bahrain, Sakheer 32038, Bahrain

Sustainability, 2022, vol. 14, issue 15, 1-21

Abstract: Access to clean drinking water is essentially required for human existence. It is a formalized fact that contaminated drinking water poses a serious threat to human life as the endowment of unpolluted drinking water to Pakistan’s inhabitants is the local government’s foremost duty. Thus, to conquer this purpose, the local government, with the coordination of the community development department (CD), fixed drinking water filtration plants at several places in Lahore. This study aimed to discover the health threats and health-associated costs endured by households in the target study areas and the effects of drinking water on infants’ and children’s health in areas having and lacking water filtration plants by employing the health lifestyle model. Moreover, this study compared waterborne disease incidence in households in targeted areas with and without local government filtration plants. For this purpose, a multistage random sampling technique was employed to collect the data from 300 households residing at different locations in Pakistan. This study revealed that people who make life choices to drink filtration plants’ water installed by the local government are less likely to contract waterborne diseases. Besides, class circumstances such as the size of the family, education of the family head, and plant water usage are highly correlated to the quality and use of drinking water and, ultimately, to the health-associated outcomes by improving a healthy lifestyle. In contrast, the age of the household head was found to be insignificant in making choices regarding drinking water choices and reducing waterborne illness. The more the education of the family head, the fewer family members found to indulge in practices for using plant water. Thus, infants/children and other people are less likely to contract waterborne incidents in areas equipped with these filtration plants. Moreover, the probability of contracting waterborne illness is higher in males than in females in areas lacking filtration plants.

Keywords: clean drinking water; filtration plants; waterborne diseases; induced morbidity (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: O13 Q Q0 Q2 Q3 Q5 Q56 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2022
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