Future-proofing Water Systems in Developing Countries: How to Protect Through Preventive Maintenance

• published: 27 Feb 2015
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A lot of time and money is wasted in misguided efforts to provide safe drinking water for people in rural communities in developing countries. On average, 40% of these water systems stop working just a few years after they are built. Billions of dollars in aid money have been thrown at the problem, but it persists. Meanwhile, half of the world's population remains deprived of access to safe water. In this E4C webinar, you will see how the simple lack of preventive maintenance is one of the most common reasons that water systems fail. You will hear from Susan Davis, who founded Improve International in 2011 to fix the problem of broken infrastructure, based on the belief that people deserve to have high-quality water and sanitation services, not just for life, but for generations. View this recorded webinar to: *Learn why people neglect operations and maintenance for rural water systems. *Learn why it is difficult to leave communities in charge of maintaining their own systems. *Hear examples of how organizations support local efforts to keep water services going. E4C holds a new webinar every month. For a schedule of upcoming webinar and an archive of past presentations, please visit: http://engineeringforchange-webinars.org/. Supplementary materials MERL - Monitoring Evaluation Resolution & Learning Resources Water O&M; - Water Operations and Maintenance Resources E4C Webinar - Future-proofing Water Systems in Developing Countries: How to Protect Investment and Increase Success through Preventive Maintenance PDF document http://engineeringforchange-webinars.org/mod/resource/view.php?id=325 MERL - Resolution Report file http://engineeringforchange-webinars.org/mod/resource/view.php?id=326 MERL - Monitoring, Evaluating, Learning file http://engineeringforchange-webinars.org/mod/resource/view.php?id=327 MERL - Water-Person-Years file http://engineeringforchange-webinars.org/mod/resource/view.php?id=328 MERL - Service Levels file http://engineeringforchange-webinars.org/mod/resource/view.php?id=329 Water O&M; - O&M; Network file http://engineeringforchange-webinars.org/mod/resource/view.php?id=330 Water O&M; - Preventive Maintenance of Rural Water Supplies file http://engineeringforchange-webinars.org/mod/resource/view.php?id=331 Water O&M; - Guidelines for Organising Handpump Maintenance Systems file http://engineeringforchange-webinars.org/mod/resource/view.php?id=332 Water O&M; - Operation and Maintenance of Rural Water Supply and Sanitation Systems http://engineeringforchange-webinars.org/mod/resource/view.php?id=333