rural water supply

Supply and demand for water and sanitation services in dispersed rural areas of Honduras Read more...

A checklist to effective adoption and implementation of the pay-as-you-fetch model. Read more...

As Ethiopia manages to develop more and more new rural water schemes – springs, wells or boreholes with hand-pumps or engines, piped water – keeping the existing infrastructure running well and safely is a challenge that gets bigger every day. And, despite some encouraging efforts, it's a challenge... Read more...

Finance is a crucial (and unavoidable) building block for ensuring sustainable rural water services. Therefore, the RWSN sustainable services group is organising webinars addressing costing and financing rural water supply which will take place next week on Tuesday 14 and Thursday 16 November. This... Read more...

Under the pay-as-you-fetch management model, a water source caretaker is paid a monthly wage. Caretakers are no longer community volunteers as they used to be and this has improved service delivery. Read more...

With many of the seasonal water sources failing due to poor rains, there has been considerable reliance on a limited number of high-yielding water schemes whose ongoing performance is critical to the drought response. Read more...

New book reveals how India made community water management work even without charismatic leaders. Read more...

Asset management is critical for all WASH systems as 30% of the infrastructure is often not working. Read more...

This webinar is part of a series organised by the Sustainable Services Theme of the Rural Water Supply Network (RWSN ). There are presentations from IRC and UNICEF on the challenges to measuring the sustainability of rural water supply services. How can the sector agree on a core set of indicators... Read more...