A review of in-situ and remote sensing technologies to monitor water and sanitation interventions

L Andres, K Boateng, C Borja-Vega, E Thomas - Water, 2018 - mdpi.com
The United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), announced in September
2015, present a vision of achieving a higher level of human health and well-being worldwide …

External support programs to improve rural drinking water service sustainability: A systematic review

M Miller, R Cronk, T Klug, ER Kelly, N Behnke… - Science of the total …, 2019 - Elsevier
Achieving sufficient, safe, continuously-available drinking water services in rural areas is a
challenge, in high-and especially low-and middle-income countries. External support …

Rethinking the economics of rural water in Africa

R Hope, P Thomson, J Koehler… - Oxford Review of …, 2020 - academic.oup.com
Rural Africa lags behind global progress to provide safe drinking water to everyone.
Decades of effort and billions of dollars of investment have yielded modest gains, with high …

Is community management an efficient and effective model of public service delivery? Lessons from the rural water supply sector in Malawi

E Chowns - Public Administration and Development, 2015 - Wiley Online Library
Reform of the rural water supply sector occurred widely in the 1990s, when many low‐
income countries replaced state‐led service provision with decentralized community …

[HTML][HTML] A cultural theory of drinking water risks, values and institutional change

J Koehler, S Rayner, J Katuva, P Thomson… - Global Environmental …, 2018 - Elsevier
Global progress towards the goal of universal, safely managed drinking water services will
be shaped by the dynamic relationship between water risks, values and institutions. We …

Design and application of a low-cost, low-power, LoRa-GSM, IoT enabled system for monitoring of groundwater resources with energy harvesting integration

OH Kombo, S Kumaran, A Bovim - IEEE Access, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The rapid expansion of Internet of Things (IoT) devices and applications has accelerated
research in various areas of human development. However, the cost of commercial …

Services trade policy and sustainable development

M Fiorini, B Hoekman - World Development, 2018 - Elsevier
The realization of many of the sustainable development goals (SDGs) depends on
bolstering the performance of services sectors and improving access to specific services in …

Exploring water access in rural Kenya: Narratives of social capital, gender inequalities and household water security in Kitui county

SA Bukachi, DO Omia, MM Musyoka… - Water …, 2021 - Taylor & Francis
Access to water and sanitation as a basic human right is still limited within resource-poor
rural settings of Africa, including Kitui, Kenya. This is exacerbated by prevailing gender …

A multi-decadal and social-ecological systems analysis of community waterpoint payment behaviours in rural Kenya

T Foster, R Hope - Journal of Rural Studies, 2016 - Elsevier
Community-based financing of rural water supply operation and maintenance is a well-
established policy principle in sub-Saharan Africa. Yet evidence from over 90,000 …

Evaluating waterpoint sustainability and access implications of revenue collection approaches in rural K enya

T Foster, R Hope - Water Resources Research, 2017 - Wiley Online Library
Water policies in many sub‐Saharan African countries stipulate that rural communities are
responsible for self‐financing their waterpoint's operation and maintenance. In the absence …