Table 1 Frequency of expressed problems with bottles or reasons for exchanging bottles. Two thirds of the users claimed to need more bottles. Their estimate number of bottles needed was in average 10.5 per family, resulting in a coverage rate of 2.33 per person. Availability of PET bottles in the region is scarce, hampering the proper supply to the villages. Only bigger Hotels in Rajshahi can provide used PET bottles.
Deformation is further problematic as the cap can loosen resulting in leaks and cap-loss.
Most of the time, some of the tubewells in the village operated during the whole year. Since establishment of tubewells, community people changed their habits and use of pond water. Today, pond water is used for cooking and bathing mainly because it is easy and has no iron. Only in one village, dugwells were present as alternative water sources. This explanation was stated from PNGOs and users alike.