Haider Ghazanfar, Sualeha Saleem, Sajida Naseem, Umme Kulsoom Khattak, Ali Ghazanfar.
Safe drinking water and sanitary measures: A cross-sectional study in peri-urban community of Islamabad.
J Pak Med Assoc Jan ;67(2):220-4.

Objective: To assess sources of drinking water and its methods of disinfection, sanitary situation and waste disposal methods. Methods: This cross-sectional study was conducted over a period of 6 months from April 2015 to September 2015 in the village of Nurpur Shahan, a peri-urban slum area of Islamabad, Pakistan. Systemic random sampling method was employed to gather data from an adult household member aged between 18 and 45 years through a structured questionnaire. SPSS 21 was used for data analysis. Results: A total of 2,078 households were included in the study. The mean age of the participants was 31.5±8.17 years. Moreover, 1,600(77%) residents did not disinfect drinking water. Boiling was the most common 378(18.2) method of disinfection. Majority of the households 1,936(93.2%) had latrine inside their houses. The most common mode of waste disposal was burning 951(45.8%), followed by dumping 601(28.9%) and throwing away in the street 415(20%). Conclusion: Most participants did not disinfect drinking water.

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