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Sustainable Rural Water Supplies

All documents related to sustainable rural water supplies


 

Artisan Associations
Published: 2007

Promoting sustainable operation and maintenance of rural water and sanitation facilities in Zambia
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Do Operation and Maintenance Pay?
Published: 2006

Life-cycle costing can help planners estimate not only how much handpumps cost to install, but how much they cost to maintain. This article, published in article published in Waterlines Vol. 25 No. 1 July 2006, shows how it is done, and demonstrates that spending more on regular maintenance often works out cheaper in the long run.
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Handpump Data
Published: 2007

Handpump data for selected countries in Sub-Saharan Africa (2007)
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Increasing effectiveness and sustainability in WES in the Bafata Region, Guinea Bissau
Published: 2004

Action Research for increasing effectiveness and sustainability in water and environmental sanitation
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Management for Sustainability
Published: 2009

Practical lessons from three studies on the management of rural water supply schemes.
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May-day! May-Day! Our handpumps are not working!
Published: 2009

Estimates say that in Africa at all time 30% of the handpumps are not working.
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Operation and Maintenance of Rural Water Supplies
Published: 2009

Challenging the community-based O&M paradigm.
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RWSN Strategy Paper Sustainable Rural Water Supplies
Published: 2005

This document sets out the three-year workplan for the sustainable rural water supplies flagship.
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Setting up viable supply chains for Hand Pumps in Vietnam
Published: 2001

Summary of an appraisal and impact assessment of the Governmentof Vietnam-IDE Hand Pump Promotion Program, that sold in five years 64000 non-subsidized Pumps to households.
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Supply Chain Issue for WES Facilities
Published: 2004

This paper provides a brief overview of supply chains issues in rural water supplies.
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