In the next five years, the company forecasts, more than 30 million households will install a home network, bringing market penetration to just over 50percentt.
Cost-consciousness about water supply led some communities to the conclusion that it would be cheaper to install a water outlet to each household than for households to continue carrying water from the sources in the main town.
Also in Copalillo, after the population and the authorities reflected on the cost of supplying households with piped water, a secondary study of costs of collecting water was undertaken, confirming that it would be cheaper to install a water outlet to each household than to continue with each household carrying water from the sources.
The dominant reason provided in the post-biogas survey for why a household did not install a biogas system was not cost, but rather lack of sufficient space on their property to build a system.
To demonstrate correct installation, at least one upesi jiko was installed in a household in each village; these demonstrations resulted in 20 trained installers (many of whom were also vendors).
Having a toilet installed in a household does not always mean it will be used, or that the practice of defecating in the open has stopped.
From July 2008 through December 2009, SWAP vendors sold and installed 1,124 upesi jiko among 757 multi-family households in the 60 villages; 60% of households installed a single upesi jiko, 38% installed two, and 2% installed three or four.
When looking at the data set, one can see that households using between 20 and 50 MWh per year make up the majority of households installing a heat pump.
In 2009, the Bangladeshi-American traveled to his ancestral homeland to install 100 household water filters in a remote village, a trek partially funded by the JHU Institute for Global Studies Summer Research Fund.
Removing the 25 participants from the six households that installed a new tube well during the course of the study did not substantially influence the sensitivity or specificity estimates (data not shown).
