Endalew Mastewal, Azanaw Jember, Belay Daniel Gashayeneh, Tsega Nuhamin Tesfa, Asratie Melaku Hunie, Biset Wondimnew Mersha, Kefale Demewoz
Department of Environmental and Occupational Health and Safety, College of Medicine and Health Sciences, Institute of Public Health, University of Gondar, Gondar, Ethiopia.
Department of Human Anatomy, College of Medicine and Health Sciences, University of Gondar, Gondar, Ethiopia.
Sci Rep. 2025 May 5;15(1):15623. doi: 10.1038/s41598-025-94497-x.
Drinking water is one of life's most basic need, and people all around the developing world confront irregular water supplies. Still, more than one billion people globally do not have secure water supply and these leads to increasing the risk of death and incurring large costs in the prevention of water-borne diseases. There are limited knowledge on actual water availability in Ethiopia. Therefore, this study was aimed determining basic water availability and its associated factors in Ethiopia. This research used 2016 Ethiopian demographic health survey data. Because of the hierarchical and clustering nature of the data, a mixed effect multilevel logistic regression model was used. In this study, the prevalence of basic drinking water availability in Ethiopia is 51.16% (95% CI 50.04-52.27%). Based on the analysis result, the household head age between 46 and 65 [AOR = 4.08, 95% CI 1.64-10.17], household heads having middle-income level (AOR = 1.22, 95% CI 1.00-1.50), being rural communities [AOR = 4.32, 95% CI 3.07-9.57] and large central regions (AOR = 2.08, 95% CI 1.17-3.68) were significant factors. The magnitude of basic drinking water availability among households in Ethiopia is low. Exploring alternative water sources is important to reduce water interruptions.
饮用水是生活中最基本的需求之一，发展中世界的人们都面临着供水不稳定的问题。尽管如此，全球仍有超过10亿人没有安全的供水，这导致死亡风险增加，并且在预防水传播疾病方面产生巨大成本。埃塞俄比亚关于实际可用水量的知识有限。因此，本研究旨在确定埃塞俄比亚的基本可用水量及其相关因素。本研究使用了2016年埃塞俄比亚人口与健康调查数据。由于数据具有分层和聚类的性质，因此使用了混合效应多级逻辑回归模型。在本研究中，埃塞俄比亚基本饮用水可用率为51.16%（95%置信区间50.04 - 52.27%）。根据分析结果，户主年龄在46至65岁之间[AOR = 4.08，95%置信区间1.64 - 10.17]、中等收入水平的户主（AOR = 1.22，95%置信区间1.00 - 1.50）、农村社区[AOR = 4.32，95%置信区间3.07 - 9.57]以及大中部地区（AOR = 2.08，95%置信区间1.17 - 3.68）是显著因素。埃塞俄比亚家庭中基本饮用水的可用量较低。探索替代水源对于减少供水中断很重要。
