After a few false starts in Haiti and at the CITA-INRA Center in Nicaragua, the rope pump was initiated into action in Monte Fresco, Nicaragua. 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...
Two tube-well-drilling methodologies, sludging and well-pointing, are being used in the Terai region of Nepal for village water points in difficult... Read more...
WaterAid, a British NGO, chose Kamira village in Butagaya Sub-county, Uganda, for a demonstration project to promote low-cost sanitation. The project... Read more...
To increase coverage of water and sanitation facilities, projects should not only be sustainable but also replicable. Two types of replication are... Read more...
Of the various methods tried, the provision of safe water supply is the most effective means of controlling guinea worm in the long run. However, the... Read more...