Tag: Bangladesh

  • Can road design boost water security in rural regions?
    Can road design boost water security in rural regions?

    re-posted from GRIPP Roads for Water is integrating road construction and small water infrastructure to harvest rainwater from small catchments for productive use, while reducing road damage and simplifying road maintenance. Improving road drainage design is reducing soil erosion and increasing groundwater recharge. Furthermore, using roads for resource capture can prevent dangerous and inconvenient flooding, and…

  • The Smart Handpump comes to Oxford
    The Smart Handpump comes to Oxford

    from: http://www.geog.ox.ac.uk/news/articles/160526-smart-handpump.html The ‘Smart Handpump’ was developed in 2011 by a team at Oxford University with a field-ready prototype starting operational trials in Kenya in 2012. These trials demonstrated proof-of-concept for remote monitoring of handpumps using simple microprocessor, accelerometer and global system for mobile communications (GSM) components. Smart Handpumps provide hourly data related to pump usage,…