Abstract
Low-income urban residents of Freetown, Sierra Leone, have limited access to safely managed piped drinking water services. The Government of Sierra Leone, in partnership with the United States Millennium Challenge Corporation, implemented a demonstration project of ten water kiosks providing distributed, stored, treated water among two neighborhoods in Freetown. This study quantifies the impact of the water kiosk intervention by utilizing a quasi-experimental propensity score matched difference-in-differences study design. Results indicate a 0.6 % improvement in household microbial water quality and an 8.2 % improvement in surveyed water security within the treatment group. Furthermore, low functionality and adoption of the water kiosks were observed.
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