Centralized water infrastructure has, over the last century, brought safe and reliable drinking
water to much of the world. But climate change, combined with aging and underfunded …

The COVID-19 pandemic placed hygiene at the centre of disease prevention. Yet, access to
the levels of water supply that support good hand hygiene and institutional cleaning, our …

Globally, some 2.5 billion people depend solely on groundwater to satisfy their daily drinking
water needs. The reliance on this resource and its centrality to realize the human right to …

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 …

As rural African communities experience more frequent and extreme droughts, it is
increasingly important that water supplies are climate resilient. Using a unique temporal …

The Joint Monitoring Programme estimated that 71% of people globally had access to
“safely managed” drinking water in 2017. However, typical data collection practices focus …

Abstract Sustainable Development Goal 6.1 seeks to “by 2030, achieve universal and
equitable access to safe and affordable drinking water”, which is challenging particularly in …

This study examines the performance of the policy of community management for rural
groundwater supply in Africa. Across the continent, policies that promote community …

Despite cogent critiques and limited successes, community-based management (CBM)
remains central to policies for natural resource management and service delivery. Various …

Despite decades of global development programming, poverty persists in the low-and-
middle-income countries targeted by these efforts. Training approaches to global …