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 …

In rural communities where central public water supply systems can hardly reach, the
acquisition and management of safe drinking water sources are challenging due to …

While significant importance is given to establishing formal organizational and contractual
hierarchies, existing project management techniques neglect the management of self …

The whole population of Feutap still collects drinking water from two protected springs, some
1 km away from this small rural agglomeration. For many generations, the only improvement …

Rural water services in Sub-Saharan Africa have failures that threaten their sustainability.
The article aims to develop a sustainability index for rural water services in Mvila Division …

Resource monitoring is often cited as important for effective common pool resources
management. In practice, not all monitoring interventions are successful, particularly when …

It is recognized that international water sector development work has issues with a lack of
sustained positive outcomes. A large driver of this outcome is how NGOs work with …

As the world is striving to improve water supply coverage, a significant number of rural
communities are forced to turn back to unprotected sources due to service breakdowns of …

This paper proposes a Water Access Index (WAI). Using this tool, decision-makers can
identify and prioritize areas that need state intervention to develop actions to guarantee rural …

The aim of this article is to assess the sustainability of rural water service in the Mvila
Division (Southern region of Cameroon) in order to constructively feed the debate on the …