Our researchers are using cloud computing and mobile sensors to monitor groundwater and help ensure that thousands of villages in rural Africa and Asia have a safe, secure supply of water.
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Faces from Bangladesh, Ethiopia and Kenya: meet our researchers
We asked six of our researchers from the country teams: what are the biggest water security and poverty issues facing your country? Here’s what they had to say.
Can a rural handpump tell you it’s not well?
By monitoring the heartbeat of thousands of handpumps across Sub-Saharan Africa and South Asia, it is possible to give millions of people access to a reliable and secure water supply.
Peering over the fence – how water security can bring business and rural communities together
What are companies doing to assess and manage water risks – and could their efforts benefit or worsen the livelihoods for rural people?
Can mobile monitoring deliver drinking water security to Africa’s rural poor?
REACH Director Rob Hope discusses the hype and hope of mobile systems to tackle poverty in Africa through better monitoring of drinking water security.
Bridging the gap: water infrastructure
Of the many conditions necessary for sustainable water security, few rank more highly than the availability of infrastructure for abstraction, storage, treatment and distribution. But there is an unbridged gap between water infrastructure and investment.
Can climate information improve water security for the poor?
Climate change threatens to undermine efforts to improve water security and end poverty. So how can planners ensure that water and sanitation programmes are resilient to climate variability and change?
How to stop #hard2reach people dropping off the research agenda?
The ‘invisible poor’ are an under-researched group that are critical to understanding the linkages between poverty and water security.
Gender and water security: the rest of the puzzle
Ask most people what the link between gender, poverty and water is and they’ll refer to the role of women in collecting water. However, this is only one piece of a much bigger puzzle linking gender and water to natural disasters, food security and even child marriage.
Water security isn’t a short-term issue for refugees
Access to water is a huge challenge for refugees. In more than half of refugee camps around the world, refugees cannot secure the minimum daily water requirement of 20 litres per person, let alone water to support livelihoods.