Frequency of using drinking-water purifiers among peasants ? inhabitants of the Dnepropetrovsk settlements

Majority of peasants’ population in the experimental districts (Krivorozhskii, Sofievskii, Shyrokovskii, Dnepropetrovskii) were covered with centralized water supply and predominantly presence of decentralized and bottled water. Interviews were collected from the given respondents have been shown additional purification as the best possible way in respect to improve potable water quality. According to the data of follow-up study, 42.16±5.56 % of peasants used boiling as well as purification method; 23.80±0.65 % interviewing in the local settlements have never used water-purifying filters; 27.96±0.55 % peasants applied filter from time to time; 91.67±0.88 % rural residents are not satisfied exploitation of the filter; 32.08±15.82 % focused on the addition purification methods, except filtration (p < 0.001)