BIG QUESTION
Listen up, loyal readers, because it's "Big Question" time! This is your chance to aid us in our water health project here in Hubli, Karnataka. The situation is as follows:
Besides simply cleaning water (a mundane, if not important humanitarian project), a huge focus of our project is using the "data informatics" software to remotely track the effectiveness of our health/sanitation education and water treatment interventions (i.e. teaching people about water sanitation and water filters that we give them).
Data will be entered into the software here in India, and then over the course of the year, from the comfort of USC in Los Angeles, we will be able to monitor certain data.
The question is:
"What kind of data should be recorded throughout the year? What are the symptoms (besides Diarrhea) of water-borne diseases (that an Indian student trained to perform follow-up visits for our project) can ask a head of household during their monthly visits?
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Some other trackable sets of information can include frequency of water access, as my understanding from discussions with HMS and reading other information on the region leads me to believe that scarcity is at times as significant of an issue as potability.
It would also be fascinating to examine how various housing setups affect the cleanliness of a water source...such as whether those slums which are located at the bottom of a slope or some other land feature have a higher prevalence of contamination than others.
Finally, I can definately do some research (with the team's go-ahead) regarding some symptoms of various parasitic infections, as I know from my earlier Honduras project that some parasites such as Schistosoma often result in children sleeping on their stomachs, with their posteriors extended into the air - an unfortunate but easily recognizable symptom of such stomach parasites.
- David
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