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Accessible - Lifting Water Containers

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|<font size="3">'''Suitable for:''' all users, especially those with limited strength, difficulty balancing or difficulty grasping a container.</font>
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|width="20%"|'''Construction'''
|width="20%"|'''Advantages '''
|width="20%"|'''Disadvantages'''
|width="20%"|'''Improvements / variations'''
|width="20%"|'''Cost / labour'''
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|style="background-color: #EDEDED;"|Pedestal made of bricks plastered with cement screed. Height about 70cm (adult hip height).
|Lifting the container from floor to head can be split into two separate actions by resting the container midway.
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|Height is ideally decided based on testing and feedback from local users (carrying out accessibility audits).
|Low
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|style="background-color: #EDEDED;"|Pedestal made of bricks plastered with cement screed. Height about 45cm (adult knee height)
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* As above
* Lower stand is easier for children and shorter people to use than 70cm pedestal
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|Height is best decided based on testing and feedback from local users.
|Low
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|style="background-color: #EDEDED;"|Borehole enclosure wall used as a midpoint for resting water container
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* As above
* User can rest the container, walk to the outside of the wall, and pick it up from there
|Wall must be very sturdy to support heavy containers of water
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|High
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===Acknowledgements===
* Content and images: [http://www.wateraid.org/what-we-do/our-approach/research-and-publications/view-publication?id=aff6d098-00f2-42e5-b9a0-22ec2b264a5e Compendium of accessible WASH technologies] WaterAid.

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