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During an interview about mapping rural water supply via a web-based system, we hit our first stumbling block. Read more...
Component costs and drivers are assessed in a new research paper. Read more...
A paper prepared for the IRC water sanitation symposium held 9-11 April 2013 in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. Read more...
Anyone who works in the water sector cannot have missed the consultations and debates on the post-2015 goals for water and sanitation. Read more...
Two weeks ago, the “management and support” working group of the RWSN had its first meeting. This meeting focused specifically on management models and support arrangements for piped water supply in small towns. Read more...
Next week more than 200 practitioners and policy makers from government, civil society, private sector and donors will come together for the annual Joint Water and Environment Sector Review in Uganda to review progress and set-backs during the past year and discuss and decide on priorities for the... Read more...
Highlights from address by the Ethiopian State Minister H.E. Ato Kebede Gerba at the opening of the Rural Water Supply Network (RWSN) Forum on 29 November 2011 in Kampala, Rural Water Supply in the 21st Century: Myths of the Past, Visions for the Future. Read more...
I have argued at times for the need for post-construction support to rural water supply, and so have various publications from IRC and others over the past decade. However, there has been critique to this, stating that there is little evidence that shows that such help helps improving rural water... Read more...
Could lack of definition be undermining the impact of effective but costly support? Read more...
If it is possible to move in a few years from an iPod to an iPhone or and iPad, why are we in the water sector still struggling with the handpump? When can we expect the iPump 2.0? Did Steve Jobs die too early to invent this? As the naked truth about poor levels of functionality of hand pumps... Read more...
The latest trend in Dutch politics is to label anything of parties of another political colour as hobbyism. Read more...