Tag: handpumps
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New Paper: Contribution of physical factors to handpump borehole functionality in Africa
The latest from the Hidden Crisis project: Highlights Handpumps are the main water supply for rural communities across sub-Saharan Africa. However, studies show that >25 % of handpumps are non-functional at any time. We present results from a systematic field study of handpump borehole functionality. The study was designed to investigate the contribution of physical…
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Technical brief now available – Project approach for defining and assessing rural water supply functionality and levels of performance
The Hidden Crisis project team have now published a Technical Brief on the methods developed and used by the project to assess rural water supply functionality and levels of performance – now available from here. This technical brief is aimed at sharing the learning and approaches developed by the project to look at how the…
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The Politics of Water 3: Area Mechanics in Malawi
In November 2017 I started my ‘politics of water’ blog as an outlet to share experiences and findings from my research in rural Malawi on water governance and service sustainability. This third installment looks at handpump mechanics.
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Can a rural handpump tell you it’s not well?
Heloise Greeff, Doctoral Researcher, Water Programme, Computational Health Informatics Lab and Smith School of Enterprise and the Environment, University of Oxford Predictive health monitoring is widely used in engineering applications to detect damage to infrastructure as early as possible. Forecasting failure rather than merely detecting failure once it occurs helps to reduce the downtime of…
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Stop the Rot – helps us stop the scandal of pump corrosion
This week RWSN/UPGro hosted a webinar on: Overcoming the Rural Water Supply Scandal of Handpump Corrosion (RWSN) – Recording (English) Dépasser le scandale de la corrosion des pompes manuelles dans l’approvisionnement rural en eau (RWSN) – Recording (French) The key points are: handpump corrosion has been known about for 30 years, it is avoidable yet…
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Overcoming the Rural Water Supply Scandal of Handpump Corrosion
Handpump corrosion has been known about for over 30 years, the fact that it is a common problem in over 25 countries is a scandal and reflects badly on donors, implementers and governments. In this webinar, Bony Etti and Jacinta Nekesa from WaterAid Uganda describe their shocking findings from investigating boreholes and pumps (as part…
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New report: From Rights to Results in Rural Water Services – Evidence from Kyuso, Kenya
From the Catalyst Project team for Risks and Institutional Responses for Poverty Reduction in Rural Africa has come a new report: From Rights to Results in Rural Water Services – Evidence from Kyuso, Kenya “Institutional transformations are required if Africa is to deliver the universal Human Right to Water to 275 million rural people without…
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