Alycia Overbo

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors reviewed the evidence about the relationship between water quantity, water accessibility and health, including the effects of water reliability, continuity and price on water use, and provided guidance on domestic water supply to ensure beneficial health outcomes.

TL;DR: When equivalent benchmarks are used for water and sanitation, the global deficit is as great for water as it is for sanitation, and sanitation progress in the MDG-period (1990–2015) outstrips that in water.

TL;DR: The review findings indicate that on-plot water access is a useful health indicator and benchmark for the progressive realization of the Sustainable Development Goal target of universal safe water access as well as the human right to safe water.

TL;DR: Reliable at-home water supply results in higher volumes of water consumed, greater practice of key hygiene behaviours, a reduction in musculo-skeletal impacts associated with carrying water from outside the home, and improved water quality, suggesting a logical policy shift towards the promotion of reliable household access as the international benchmark for water supply.

TL;DR: The analyses indicate that water softening is an important chloride source in areas with hard water and underscore the importance of identifying and characterizing chloride sources in less urban areas, where deicing salt may be a less important contributor and receiving water bodies are often lakes, reservoirs, and streams.