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📸 The #REALWater team trains water system operators to test water samples for chlorine residual from a waterpoint to ensure the water is safe for drinking in Suma-Ahenkro, Bono Region of Ghana. 🌍 Much of the global population is exposed to contaminated drinking water. Contamination can be mitigated in piped systems at the water supplier or household levels. However, mitigating at the water supplier level, where it can be centrally managed, is often easier. A water safety plan (WSP) is a comprehensive approach to ensuring the safety of drinking water from its source to the tap. 🔍 REAL-Water conducted a randomized controlled trial to assess the implementation effectiveness and outcomes of #WSPs in rural towns across nine regions in southern Ghana. These towns varied in size, ranging from approximately 1,000 to over 10,000 people. 📑 Here is a report from the 92 piped water supply systems in Ghana included in the study: https://ow.ly/QsVJ50Qk2b7 USAID | Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology, Kumasi | Aguaconsult Ltd. | RWSN - Rural Water Supply Network | #WaterSafetyPlan

Check out the latest success from the Tajikistan Rural Water Supply activity, which rehabilitates rural drinking water supply systems. It is wonderful to play a part in such impactful work!

The USAID Global Water Strategy Action Research Initiative is leveraging evidence and learning from #Ghana to identify high-impact opportunities to enhance water quality in #Uganda. With Aquaya and Hilton Grand Vacations Foundation, USAID is researching the Water Quality Assurance Fund’s feasibility in Uganda after encouraging uptake in Ghana. The Fund offers a financial mechanism whereby dispersed rural water systems can receive reliable, professional water quality testing services on a regular basis. A few lessons learned: - While outsourcing water quality testing to professional laboratories is preferred for rural water systems that do not have the technical capacity to conduct monitoring onsite, the costs of sample collection and transportation by a central lab may be prohibitive for water systems located very far away. Remote locations may require a mobile laboratory instead. - Expanding water safety innovations from one country to another can reveal new bottlenecks and require context-specific adaptations. For example, moving forward with the Assurance Fund model will require adaptations to the sampling protocol or providing the water systems with subsidies that reduce costs. https://lnkd.in/eb6kv9JQ

OOO yes... That is my chairman... What an excellence discussion. Maybe next time I will also like to add some points. Despite the abundance of water in Nigeria, some parts of Nigeria still lack adequate water supply, water shortage, water scarcity as well. There is also a increase in water borne disease. Sequel to the above, many factors are stringently attached to them. An until we start engaging this problems one after the other. We are just playing ourselves. Nigeria is one of the best blessed country with water resource and as such, we have no reason to have problems at all. The questions is 1. What happened in the past? 2. The model developed and adopted to cater for earlier population in Nigeria, was there no provision for population expansion 3How did we get to this post? 4. What are the concepts, strategies, action plans, technological development that had being put in place for resolutions 5. Why does a country with such resources end up selling such resource to it's citizens? 6. What international collaboration and actions had can be successfully pinpoint? Let me stop here because I can discuss this a whole day. There is a whole lot to be discussed here.

🔬 Did you know? The #WaterQualityAssuranceFund allows professional laboratories to expand regular water quality testing to small rural water suppliers without taking on additional financial risks that would otherwise deter them from working with these systems. This short #REALwater report describes the baseline status of community-managed water systems in #rural #Ghana, prior to their enrollment in the Assurance Fund impact evaluation, and discusses preliminary implications for water quality in rural, low-income settings, as the overall evaluation proceeds through 2025. You can read the key findings and access the full report here ➡ https://lnkd.in/dGQK-RuE USAID Aquaya Aguaconsult Ltd. University of Technology Sydney Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology, Kumasi RWSN - Rural Water Supply Network Safe Water Network Water Mission #waterquality #ruralwater #drinkingwater #ruraldevelopment #safedrinkingwater

📸 A field enumerator, Chalwa Nsanganya, tests chlorine levels in a household's stored water sample collected from a household in Mpunde, Zambia. The household members stated that having water within their premises saves them time and allows them to conduct other daily activities. 🌊 What are the benefits of having water access within your premises? 🏠 USAID | #WASH |#REALWater | #RuralWater | #fieldwork

🌊 A research assistant takes a pH reading from a water sample at a hand pump in Kabarole, Uganda. In early 2023, Aquaya tested water samples from 7 districts in Ethiopia, Uganda, and Ghana for E. coli and physical-chemical parameters. 🦠 One key takeaway from the findings was that E. coli levels varied among geographic locations. Still, results showed that #boreholes with hand pumps and #piped water systems were consistently the safest water points across districts and seasons. 💡 More insights: https://ow.ly/pGVY50Qk1zx Conrad N. Hilton Foundation | #WaterTRACS | #WaterQuality | #Testing | #Research

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#Lets_Speak_Africa is implementing a 500-tree planting project and the project is being led by Ruth Bassey Okim in Nigeria I urge you all my fellow citizens from Nigeria to support the project. Even if you are not in Nigeria, wherever you are, you can plant a tree and in so doing, you will have contributed to the project. #LETS_PROTECT_OUR_ENVIRONMENT

Read more from our work in Energizing Agriculture Program (EAP) As distributed energy resources (DERs) are deployed across Nigeria, newly connected customers and communities need help in accessing the means to use their power and unlock the benefits of reliable energy access. Agriculture is the economic backbone of rural Nigerian communities where DERs are often the lowest-cost electrification option. Using electricity productively in agricultural value chains can drive a virtuous cycle where new agricultural industries improve incomes of community members and the economics of local DERs, catalyzing more investment in DERs and machinery and accelerating local economies. https://lnkd.in/eDFmd5xK