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Assessing the Effectiveness of a Water Filter Technology as an Arsenic Mitigation Strategy in West Bengal

NCT02372851 · Status: COMPLETED · Phase: NA · Type: INTERVENTIONAL · Enrollment: 362

Last updated 2016-09-12

No results posted yet for this study

Summary

The purpose of this study is to determine whether the use of a point-of-use water filtration technology can reduce the Arsenic content in drinking water and reduce the Arsenic body burden.

Conditions

  • Total Urinary Arsenic
  • Total Arsenic in Water
  • Diarrhoeal Disease

Interventions

DEVICE

Pureit As+ Filter

The Pureit As+ water filter has been developed to effectively remove arsenic (both arsenite and arsenate) from over 300 µg/L to less than 10 µg/L in addition to removing microbial contamination (Institution of Public Health Engineers, 2011). It has an end-of-life indicator and consumables that do not re-contaminate the environment when disposed (Institution of Public Health Engineers, 2011). The technology requires no electricity, but only the replacement of the battery after 1000 L of water filtered (approximately 100 days based on a family of five drinking 2 L/day).

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • University of Kalyani

    collaborator UNKNOWN

  • KIIT University

    collaborator UNKNOWN

  • Hindustan Unilever Ltd.

    collaborator UNKNOWN

  • London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine

    lead OTHER

Principal Investigators

  • Thomas Clasen, JD MSc PhD · LSHTM & Emory University

Study Design

Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Purpose
PREVENTION
Masking
NONE
Model
PARALLEL

Eligibility

Min Age
18 Years
Sex
FEMALE
Healthy Volunteers
No

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2015-01-31
Primary Completion
2015-07-31
Completion
2015-07-31

Countries

  • India

Study Locations

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