About the Authors

Jill Luoto

jluoto@rand.org

Affiliation RAND Corporation, Santa Monica, California, United States of America

Nusrat Najnin

Affiliation International Centre for Diarrheal Disease Research, Bangladesh (ICDDR,B), Dhaka, Bangladesh

Minhaj Mahmud

Affiliations International Centre for Diarrheal Disease Research, Bangladesh (ICDDR,B), Dhaka, Bangladesh, Bangladesh Institute of Development Studies, Dhaka, Bangladesh

Jeff Albert

Affiliation Aquaya Institute, San Francisco, California, United States of America

M. Sirajul Islam

Affiliation International Centre for Diarrheal Disease Research, Bangladesh (ICDDR,B), Dhaka, Bangladesh

Stephen Luby

Affiliation International Centre for Diarrheal Disease Research, Bangladesh (ICDDR,B), Dhaka, Bangladesh

Leanne Unicomb

Affiliation International Centre for Diarrheal Disease Research, Bangladesh (ICDDR,B), Dhaka, Bangladesh

David I. Levine

Affiliation Haas School of Business, University of California, Berkeley, California, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have read the journal's policy and have the following conflicts: One of the study's funders, The P&G Fund of the Greater Cincinnati Foundation, is associated with the Procter & Gamble Company, the manufacturer of PUR, one of the included products in our study. This does not alter the authors' adherence to all the PLoS ONE policies on sharing data and materials.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: JL DIL JA SL. Performed the experiments: NN. Analyzed the data: JL. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: MSI. Wrote the paper: DIL JL JA MM SL LU. Selection of included products: JA. Informational script design: JL DL. Survey design: JL MM. Supervised the data collection: NN. Supervised the microbiological laboratory: SI. Supervised the ICDDR, B Team: SL LU.