WASH and food practices (N=5916)
| WASH parameter | n (%) N=5916 |
| Drinking water-related practices | |
| Source of drinking water | |
| Piped water from Municipality | 4845 (81.9) |
| Bottled water | 605 (10.2) |
| Public tap/standpipe | 226 (3.8) |
| Others* | 240 (0.06) |
| Households treating water before consumption | 1917 (32.4) |
| Methods of water treatment (N=1917) | |
| Filtration† | 1809 (30.6) |
| Boiling | 92 (1.5) |
| Others ‡ | 16 (0.3) |
| Improved source of drinking water | 5158 (87.2) |
| Adequate water treatment | 1907 (32.2) |
| Safe drinking water | 1733 (29.3) |
| Sanitation practices | |
| Type of toilet facility used | |
| Pit latrines | 4695 (79.3) |
| Flush type toilet | 1220 (20.6) |
| Composting toilet | 1 (0.1) |
| Children living in households with shared toilets | 942 (15.9) |
| Child stool disposal practices | |
| Child used toilet/latrine | 5046 (85.3) |
| Discarded into toilet/drain | 505 (8.5) |
| Others§ | 363 (6.2) |
| Safe sanitation | 4965 (83.9) |
| Food practices | |
| Practice of consumption of uncooked food without washing | 111 (1.9) |
| Consuming ice cream (stick ice/unnamed ice creams from street vendors) once a week or more | 2275 (38.4) |
| Eating foods from outside once a week or more | 752 (12.7) |
| Eating uncooked food once a week or more | 4117 (69.6) |
| Good food practices | 1188 (20.0) |
*Others included tanker trucks and tube well.
†1166 (19.7%) used a candle filter, while 643 (10.9%) used an electric water purifier.
‡Others included straining through cloth and storage.
§Others included throwing into a garbage and left in the open.
WASH, water, sanitation and hygiene.