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Open-source mobile technology delivering vital data cheaply and accurately isn't just a pipe dream, says Jim Yoon of WellDone International. Read more...
The WAS-RoPSS project, or the 'rope pump project' is working towards the development of guidelines for the standardisation of rope pump manufacturing. Read more...
Elder Joe is the proud secretary of a water committee managing a handpump on the outskirts of Odumase town in Ghana. But the committee would rather manage a different type of system. Read more...
The costs of getting spare parts for handpumps can sometimes be higher than the costs of the parts. But a new SMS-based system might help. Read more...
The Community Water and Sanitation Agency (CWSA) in Ghana is developing a framework for assessing and monitoring water services. Read more...
A strategy development workshop and sector review point the way for a three-year action plan. Read more...
In March 2012, UNICEF and WHO announced that the Millennium Development Goal for water had been met. But that's just the start. Read more...
USAID and Rotary International's development and adoption of the powerful Sustainability Index Tool is great news. Read more...
This is great news and fantastic to see USAID adopting and promoting this approach which aims to really track and better understand the underlying causes of poor sustainability in the WASH sector. Read more...
I cannot resist visiting the odd water works or taking photographs of the local water and sanitation facilities during my holidays. Read more...
The 36th WEDC conference that took place from 1 - 5 of July in Nakuru, Kenya, was the first opportunity for IRC to launch its "West Africa Learning and Exchange workshop". This learning event will take place in Cotonou, Benin, from 12th - 14th of November 2013. Read more...
Ewen Leborgne looks at institutional memory, knowledge sharing and information management. Read more...
The USAID water strategy has had the gestation period of an elephant, but now that it's finally out, has it been worth the wait? Read more...
During an interview about mapping rural water supply via a web-based system, we hit our first stumbling block. Read more...
Blog acerca de los retos en la implementación del SIASAR en Honduras. Read more...
114 proyectos de agua financiados por 11 programas diferentes y a través de 19 modalidades de trabajo. Read more...
Monitoring, capacity development and learning are often addressed as separate processes. But could linking them offer improvements? Read more...
Stef Smits reflexione sobre los resultados del análisis del costo del ciclo de vida en Honduras. Read more...
Eline Bakker reflects on practitioners' training in the marketing of sanitation in Nairobi. Read more...
Jacques Dutronc's song sums up how the WASH sector is waking up to the Paris Declaration, cleaning up the mess of often uncoordinated aid efforts. Read more...