Households’ Willingness to Use Water from a Solar Water Disinfection Treatment System for Household Purposes

Abdul-Rahaman Afitiri () and Ernest Kofi Amankwa Afrifa
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Abdul-Rahaman Afitiri: Chair of Biotechnology of Water Treatment, Institute of Environmental Technology, Brandenburg University of Technology Cottbus-Senftenberg, 03046 Cottbus, Germany
Ernest Kofi Amankwa Afrifa: Department of Environmental Science, School of Biological Sciences, College of Agriculture and Natural Sciences, University of Cape Coast, Cape Coast CC 3321, Ghana

World, 2024, vol. 5, issue 4, 1-13

Abstract: The consumption of contaminated water contributes to the global burden of diarrhea and other water-borne diseases, especially among young children. While decentralized solar water disinfection treatment systems (hereafter SODIS) remain a viable option to have safe drinking water, our understanding of the effects of household water treatment before use on willingness to accept and adopt a SODIS is limited. In this study, a complementary log-log regression analysis of the compositional and contextual factors that systematically vary with willingness to accept and adopt a SODIS in the Sawla-Tuna-Kalba (STK) district of Ghana was carried out. Based on our findings, a greater proportion of households (97%) are willing to accept and adopt a SODIS. Compositional and contextual factors such as age, marital status, education, religion, and geographical location significantly contribute to households’ willingness to accept and adopt a SODIS in the STK district of Ghana. Households that treat their water before use (66%, p < 0.05) are more likely to accept and adopt a SODIS compared to those that do not treat their water before use. The findings, therefore, suggest that scaling up SODIS in the STK district is sacrosanct and highlight the necessity to analyse compositional and contextual factors influencing willingness to accept and adopt SODIS. Our findings will inform policies and programs aimed at implementing SODIS in the study area to improve the health of communities that rely on poor-quality drinking water sources.

Keywords: SODIS; disinfection; willingness to accept; adoption; Sawla-Tuna-Kalba district; complementary log-log regression (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: G15 G17 G18 L21 L22 L25 L26 Q42 Q43 Q47 Q48 R51 R52 R58 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2024
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