Water use practices, water quality, and households’ diarrheal encounters in communities along the Boro-Thamalakane-Boteti river system, Northern Botswana

Table 1 Characteristics of settlements sampled for the study. Number of households was estimated by dividing total population of each settlement by the average household size of 5.4 reported by CSO (2010) for the Ngamiland district

Settlement	Distance (km)	Population	Number of households	Type of settlement
Boro	−11	393	73	Ungazetted
Maun	0	2053^a	380	Gazetted
Xobe	13	260	48	Ungazetted
Samedupi	20	471	87	Ungazetted
Chanoga	30	347	64	Ungazetted
Motopi	87	3591	248	Gazetted

^aNote that the population for Maun indicated here is only for Shashe ward and Matlapana which were sampled for this study. The total population of Maun is 60, 273 (CSO, 2012)

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