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Abstract
It is estimated that broken water pumps impact 62 million people in sub-Saharan Africa. Over the last 20 years, broken handpumps have represented US$1·2–1·5 billion of lost investment in this region, with 30–40% of rural water systems failing prematurely. While the contributory factors are complex and multi-faceted, the authors consider that improved post-construction monitoring strategies for remote water projects, which rely on smart pumps to monitor operational performance in place of physical site visits, may address some of these problems and help reduce the heavy time and resource demands on stakeholders associated with traditional monitoring strategies. As such, smart pumps could play a significant role in improving project monitoring and might subsequently help deliver universal access to safe and affordable drinking water by 2030, which constitutes one of the key targets of United Nations sustainable development goal 6 and is embedded in some national constitutions.
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Senior Lecturer in Law, Lincoln Law School and College of Social Science, University of Lincoln, Lincoln, UK
1.3 Millennium development goal 7 The sustainable development goals (SDGs) seek to build on the United Nations (UN) millennium development goals (MDGs), which were a previous set of developmental targets adopted by the UN in 2000
It is estimated that broken water pumps impact the lives of 62 million people in sub-Saharan Africa
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2.1 Overview Telemetry devices that remotely measure operational performance data are widely used for many applications across the globe. This is demonstrated by the emergence of field trials of a number of new technologies, most notably SweetSense, the smart handpump project and MoMo. This is demonstrated by the emergence of field trials of a number of new technologies, most notably SweetSense, the smart handpump project and MoMo Many of these systems are designed to monitor remotely the operational status of handpumps, with problems reported back to local maintenance teams (see Figure 4). 2.2.1 SweetSense project The SweetSense programme of Portland State University has produced technologies for the developing-world context that are focused on the collection and dissemination of a range of field data over mobile phone networks These sensor technologies have been used to monitor the operational status and/or performance of key rural infrastructure such as bridges, sanitation and water projects (GSMA, 2014). Field trials of this system are underway in Ethiopia (charity: water, 2015)
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