Intermediate goals

The intermediate goals of the sustainable rural water supplies flagship of RWSN are:

To establish unambiguous definitions and proposed benchmarks for rural water supply sustainability, initially for handpumps in sub-Saharan Africa, other service types and regions will be added in the future;
To increase the useful lifespan of the handpump and other water supply systems;
To decrease repair down times;
To improve asset management through increased recovery of recurrent and capital costs;
To increase the number of options (both technical and managerial) commonly made available to communities;
To decrease the number / frequency of water system rehabilitations; and
To decrease the % of water sources that dry up for significant portions of the year.