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Can road design boost water security in rural regions?

Posted by RWSN Secretariaton 23/02/2018in Awards, Optimising Road Development for Groundwater Recharge and Retention

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…

The Smart Handpump comes to Oxford

Posted by RWSN Secretariaton 26/05/201626/05/2016in Consortium Project News, Gro for GooD: Groundwater Risk Management for Growth and Development

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…