Table 1 Inclusion and exclusion criteria used to select studies describing interventions for mitigating the risk of waterborne diarrheal diseases

Inclusion criteria

 1. Studies published from 2009 to 2020

 2. Full and complete studies

 3. Studies conducted across the world

 4. Studies conducted in real community-level settings i.e., schools, health facilities, and households in humans

 5. Studies with water supply, sanitation, hygiene, breastfeeding, and vaccination interventions

 6. Studies with a waterborne diarrheal disease outcome or water quality outcome

 7. Studies reporting effective intervention outcome

 8. Studies with confirmed uptake of an intervention(s)

Exclusion criteria

 1. Studies not published in the English language

 2. Studies with waterborne diarrheal disease(s) and another disease(s) outcome

 3. Studies that the researcher did not have full-text access to.

 4. Studies that reported hospital-acquired infections/nosocomial infection