CAN YOU HELP SLUMS WITH HANDWASHING?
This is an urgent request form NGOs working to stop COVID in Indian slums. Details of problem in THREAD. Summary: we need solution that slums can implement themselves w/ reused water. Please retweet to increase eyeballs. 1/
@vandanagoyal01
This is an urgent request form NGOs working to stop COVID in Indian slums. Details of problem in THREAD. Summary: we need solution that slums can implement themselves w/ reused water. Please retweet to increase eyeballs. 1/
@vandanagoyal01
Handwashing requires water & soap. Both are in short supply in slums cuz they usually don't have water pipes. Govt sometimes sent water tankers, but those have slowed. 2/
@adamschilton @tariqthachil @adam_m_auerbach
@adamschilton @tariqthachil @adam_m_auerbach
We can't create new handwashing stations. This takes time to scale w/o a lockdown. With India's 21 day lockdown, definitely cannot ship them there. Plus, they require water. 3/
@pritika13 @nebuer42
@pritika13 @nebuer42
We need a solution that a/uses materials already in slums, b/reuses water, c/comes with simple instructions people can follow and are likely to obey (so we can scale in a lockdown), & d/ solution is better than NO handwashing! Perfection shouldn't be enemy of good. 4/ @ATabarrok
Here is MADE UP EXAMPLE for illustration only - I don't know if it works. Fill 15 liter bucket w water, add X capfuls of chlorine, wipe dirt off hands, swish hand in water, shake off water into bucket, dry hands, put lid on bucket, replace chlorine water every Y days. 5/
Again, that was just a *made up example* to illustrate the sorts of solution that we need. I am not saying it works. (Though if some enigneer/scientists can determine if it does, that would be great too.) It meets conditions (a)-(c) to start. 6/7
If you have an idea, please reply to this thread or include some of the people that I have tagged, who can pass it on. 7/7
Idea: put iodine (instead of chlorine) in bucket of water. Does anyone know articles shedding light on whether hand washing w/ iodine in reused water would kill viruses? Adv over chlorine: aafer if accidentally ingested cuz its used to disinfect drinking water in field. 8/7
Iodine stains hands, but this is a feature not bug. It will show others you washed hands. BUT DON'T FOLLOW THIS INSTRUCTION JUST YET. WE NEED MORE DATA/INPUT. Just another idea to jog peoples' brains. 9/7
BTW, iodine idea requires h/t to @stacylrosenbaum
