Endemic issues of sustainability in the water, sanitation, and hygiene (WASH) sector have
led to the rapid expansion of 'system approaches' for assessing the multitude of …

The presence of the mobile phone network in rural areas where there is little other
infrastructure has opened up the prospect of automatically monitoring rural water systems …

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 …

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 …

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 …

Locally managed handpumps provide water services to around 200 million people in rural
Africa. Handpump failures often result in extended service disruption leading to high but …

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 …

The drinking water sector is off track to reach Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) 6.1 with
over a quarter of the world's population lacking safe and reliable services. Policy …

The sustainability of rural groundwater supply infrastructure, primarily boreholes fitted with
hand pumps, remains a challenge. This study evaluates whether coverage targets set out …

Rainfall patterns influence water usage and revenue from user payments in rural Africa. We
explore these dynamics by examining monthly rainfall against 4,888 records of rural piped …