Monitoring the sustainability of new water supplies often relies on indirect indicators, aiming to show that all preconditions for sustained... Read more...
External Support Agencies each choosing different hand pumps for their projects can lead to great difficulties for Village Level Operation and... Read more...
Kenyan peasant farmers are moving into agricultural areas abandoned by white farmers. Due to the newness of the settlements (less than 10 years) a... Read more...
A WaterAid project in rural Ghana uses two technologies for constructing hand-dug wells: concrete-lined and block-lined. The concrete-lined method... Read more...
Short descriptions with illustrations are given of the following manually operated pumps which are suitable for small-scale irrigation: the rower... Read more...
In this article the authors suggest there is a need to address more systematically the range of problems relating to source protection and the... Read more...
Almost out of necessity, a FINNIDA project in the Western Province of Kenya, turned to women to recruit as hand pump mechanics. Read more...
Article discusses the differences between planned project outcomes and the percieved project benefits at the level of the communities served. The... Read more...
This article points out that in the area of water resources development and environmental protection, women at present are more often the victims... Read more...