Future-proofing Water Systems in Developing Countries: How to Protect Through Preventive Maintenance
Channel: Engineering for Change
Date: 27/02/2015

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