Table 2.
Access to water resources of participating households from informal and formal settlements.
| Sites | Overall N = 707 |
Informal Settlements (IS) | Formal Settlements (FS) | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Overall IS (n = 543) | Barcelona (n = 89) | Lotus Park (n = 88) | Pelican Park (n = 87) | Phola Park (n = 85) | Weltevrede (n = 100) | Sweet Home (n = 94) | Overall FS (n = 164) |
Gugulethu (n = 84) | Manenberg (n = 80) | ||
| Access to water resources | 99.4% | 99.3% | 97.8% | 100% | 100% | 100% | 98% | 100% | 100% | 100% | 100% |
| Drinking water resources | |||||||||||
| Piped tap inside house | 30.4% | 12.5% | 13.5% | 13.6% | 12.6% | 11.8% | 15% | 8.5% | 89.6% | 89.4% | 89.9% |
| Piped tap inside yard | 11.2% | 12.7% | 3.4% | 2.3% | 57.5% | 2.4% | 4% | 8.5% | 6.1% | 8.3% | 3.8% |
| Public taps | 57.7% | 74.4% | 83.2% | 84.1% | 28.7% | 84.7% | 81% | 83% | 2.4% | 2.4% | 2.5% |
| Use of bottled water | 0.7% | 0.4% | 0 | 0 | 1.2% | 1.2% | 0 | 0 | 1.8% | 0 | 3.8% |
| Distance to water resource | |||||||||||
| Within 500 m | 95.5% | 94.1% | 89.9% | 96.6% | 100% | 100% | 92% | 87.2% | 100% | 100% | 100% |
| >500 m | 4.5% | 5.9% | 10.1% | 3.4% | 0 | 0 | 8% | 12.8% | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Time spent to fletch water | |||||||||||
| Within 30 min | 99.4% | 99.3% | 97.8% | 100% | 100% | 100% | 98% | 100% | 100% | 100% | 100% |
| >30 min | 0.6% | 0.7% | 2.2% | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2% | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Storing water <12 h | 87.8% | 91.3% | 88.8% | 100% | 86.2% | 89.4% | 93% | 90.4% | 76.2% | 87.1% | 64.6% |
| Water cut-off in the last 30 days | 19.4% | 20.1% | 36% | 16% | 6.9% | 5.9% | 42% | 10.6% | 17.1% | 10.6% | 24.1% |
| Treating water before drinking | 46.5% | 42.7% | 28.1% | 53.4% | 57.5% | 36.5% | 50% | 30.9% | 59.2% | 45.9% | 73.2% |
| Type of water-storing container | |||||||||||
| Plastic bucket/bottles | 96.3 | 98.3% | 100% | 98.9% | 98.8% | 97.6% | 97% | 98.9% | 89.6% | 85.7% | 93.8% |
| Other | 3.7% | 1.7% | 0 | 1.1% | 1.2% | 2.4% | 3% | 1.1% | 10.4% | 14.3% | 4.2% |
| Cleaning frequency of water-storing container | |||||||||||
| Daily | 79.5% | 82% | 69.7% | 90.9% | 90.8% | 789.4% | 75% | 77.7% | 71.3% | 77.7% | 64.6% |
| <1 time/day | 120.5% | 18% | 40.3% | 9.1% | 9.2% | 10.6% | 25% | 22.3% | 29.7% | 22.3% | 35.4% |