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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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Low Cost Handpumps
Published: 2011

This guidance note points out the strengths and limitations of a number of low cost pumps. It provides an overview of the application, technical details, materials used, installation and maintenance, manufacturing requirements and costs of several low cost pumps, including information on the numbers installed and locations.
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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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Operation and Maintenance of Rural Water Supplies in Malawi - Study Findings

This report describes the findings of an O&M study in Malawi, undertaken in November 2008. The report is accompanied by a sister document explaining a proposed framework for O&M and recommending actions to establish the system. The study team reviewed relevant documentation, followed by three weeks of fieldwork in Malawi. Visits were made to 15 Districts in all three regions of Malawi. The consultants were accompanied by MoIWD staff. Consultations were held with over 80 stakeholders
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Proceedings of the 5th RWSN Forum 2006 Ghana
Published: 2007

Scaling up Local Entrepreneurship in Rural Water Supply to meet the MDGs
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