バングラデシュ砒素汚染村における代替水源利用にかんする社会文化的要因の分析

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  • 谷 正和
    九州大学大学院芸術工学研究院環境計画部門

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  • Socio-cultural factors affecting the use of alternative water sources in an arsenic contaminated rural village in Bangladesh
  • バングラデシュヒソ オセンムラ ニ オケル ダイタイ スイゲン リヨウ ニ カンスル シャカイ ブンカテキ ヨウイン ノ ブンセキ

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The contamination of groundwater by arsenic poses serious health risk to residents in Bangladesh. The Bangladesh Government, international organizations, and other various groups actively conduct mitigation efforts. One major means of arsenic mitigation is the construction of alternative water supply options that provide suffering residents with arsenic- safe drinking water. This paper presents the detailed analysis of the behavior of the use of alternative water sources in a rural village in Jessore district based on village surveys conducted by our research team. In this village, three alternative water sources had been installed at the time of the survey. While many households actively use the water of the safe sources, there are other households who do not take the opportunity. The most common reason for not using the water source is distance, namely, too far to fetch. The analysis, however, finds other socio-cultural reasons for no use, such as the boundaries of social groups and the cultural restriction of female behavior. Based on these analyses, we conclude that in order to supply safe water more efficiently, the mitigation plan needs to address such socio-cultural factors in the siting of new water sources. Moreover, these alternative water sources for collective use alone cannot supply safe water to an entire village because households who cannot and will not go to the collective water sources for varied reasons are scattered. Therefore, it is necessary to develop other types of smaller water sources to supply safe water to cover these isolated households.

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  • 芸術工学研究

    芸術工学研究 1 1-8, 2004-03-12

    九州大学大学院芸術工学研究院

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