Message for participants following both themes

Dear Forum Participants:

After successfully addressing some file size issues, the Hygiene Improvement Project (HIP) is pleased to inform you that the background paper for this conference that provides an overview of the wider topic, household water treatment and storage, has been posted in the background materials section of this e-conference. Accompanying this is a series of appendices and some PowerPoint presentations. We hope you find it useful.

Also, as indicated in this document, the paper will be finalized following the e-conference, so please feel free to send any comments you have about this paper directly to hip@aed.org. The paper was prepared by Susan Murcott from MIT for HIP. She and many others helped USAID and HIP to identify potentially interested participants—including all the members from WHO’s International Network to Promote Household Water Treatment and Safe Storage who have actively started to participate. HIP would also like to acknowledge our colleagues at Nepal Water for Health (NEWAH) and Pure Home Water, Ghana who prepared excellent case studies to help frame the questions for this e-conference.

We appreciate everyone’s understanding as we address technical issues that have been arising as quickly as we can. To assist in answering some technical and logistic questions, we have developed and posted a frequently asked questions document with corresponding answers. These include things like: How do I turn off my notifications? Does this conference have an agenda? and What do I do if I forget my password?

The conversations started early—an indication, we hope, that everyone is eager to share experiences and to discuss critically these important issues around household water treatment and storage. We look forward to much more sharing.

Thank you.
HIP Team