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Our Research

Water Mission is committed to ongoing learning and improvement to ensure the integrity of our promise to deliver lasting benefits for the people and communities we serve. Our product innovation and program evaluation initiatives – both in the laboratory and in the field – continuously enhance our water treatment and pumping technologies, technical design and community development approach. Additionally, we share our knowledge and best practices for the Water, Sanitation and Hygiene (WASH) sector.

Solar Water Pumping
Sustainable WASH Management
Remote Monitoring & Innovative Technology
Measuring Holistic Impact

Solar Water Pumping

Water Mission’s extensive experience in designing, constructing and supporting solar-powered pumping solutions demonstrates the technology’s viability’s and cost effectiveness for delivering safe water to people, particularly in rural areas.

With over 1,400 solar-powered systems installed, Water Mission has experienced a very low failure rate. We have also seen a reduction of overall lifecycle costs when compared to drilled boreholes fitted with hand pumps that are designed for equivalent service areas and lifespans.   LEARN MORE

Papers, Articles, and Presentations:

  • 4 Key Advantages of Solar-Powered Water Pumping
  • Elements of Sustainable Solar Water Pumping System Design
  • Solar pumping for rural water supply: life-cycle cost from eight countries
  • Retrofitting Existing Water Systems into Solar

Sustainable WASH Management

Our approach to sustainability goes beyond solar-pumping technology and encompasses the best community-managed leadership and training available for those operating the systems. We have found that, in addition to broad systemic support, the fundamental building blocks for lasting service delivery at the local level are:

  • Community demand and ownership
  • Management capacity
  • Adequate finance
  • Quality technical design and construction

We strive to cultivate, monitor, and evaluate the impact of these factors in the areas where we work.

 

Papers, Articles, and Presentations

The following research findings and working papers have been published in journals and presented at academic and professional meetings such as the WEDC International Conference, Practicing Anthropology, The Water and Health Conference at UNC Chapel Hill, and the Accord WASH Summit.

Solar pumping for rural water supply: life-cycle from eight countries
Life-Cycle Cost Recovery of Rural Community-managed Water Supplies: Experience from Malawi and Uganda
Success indicators and barriers to access: a study of community-based water management in Uganda
An impact study of two models of community-based water management in Uganda
Water Accessibility and Use Revisited: Implications for Financial Planning of Rural Water Supplies
Longterm Functionality and User Adoption of Subsidized Pour-Flush Latrines
Managing Cash Reserves for Capital Maintenance Expenses
Development-oriented relief and recovery in the WASH sector: a survey of current practice
Financial Sustainability
Data-driven Water Security with IBM Technology
Resiliency Of The Safe Water Enterprise Model Report Keep The Water Flowing

Remote Monitoring & Innovative Technology

Since 2009, Water Mission has been engaged in remote monitoring and data collection with mobile devices, prepaid smart water dispensers (SWD), and well sensors transmitted over mobile and satellite networks.

Most recently, the World Bank funded a study in Tanzania to demonstrate the viability and sustainability of solar-powered water pumping and SWDs to address the systemic water service issues across the country. The study will help us better understand what makes a water system both financially and operationally sustainable, as well as help standardize how water solutions are implemented and managed in the future.  Learn More

Papers, Articles, and Presentations:

  • The SatWater Meter & Communicator
  • Designing Data-Driven Technology with IBM
  • Remote Monitoring of Privately-Managed Rural Water Supplies Using Grundfos LIFELINK
  • Accuracy and Reliability of Operator-Assisted (SMS) Data Collection in Community-Managed Water Supplies

Measuring Holistic Impact

We aim for transformational impact through our work with water, sanitation, and hygiene. Our rigorous program evaluation initiatives generate quantitative and qualitative evidence of improved health and wellbeing in the areas where we are engaged and help to improve our future efforts.

Tracking Pediatric Diarrhea and Mortality after a Large Scale WASH Program

While implementing a large-scale WASH program across the Department of Colón, Honduras, our research team tracked pediatric diarrhea and infant mortality rates over six years. In 2011, Colón experienced a drop in infant mortality rates almost twice as great as the national trend (15.6% vs. 29.6%), supporting local assertions of the impact of such large-scale interventions on childhood health and survival.

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Papers, Articles, and Presentations

The following research findings have been published in journals and presented at academic and professional meetings such as the Journal of Water, Sanitation and Hygiene for Development, Journal of Anthropology, Practicing Anthropology, The Water and Health Conference at UNC Chapel Hill, and the Society for Applied Anthropology.

A multidimensional measure of diarrheal disease load changes resulting from access to improved water sources in Honduras
Health Impact of Community-Based Water Treatment Systems in Honduras
Profession and Incidence of Water-borne Parasites in a Health Impact Study of Fishing Communities along Lake Victoria in Uganda | Water Mission Research
Prevalence of intestinal protozoa in communities along the Lake Victoria region of Uganda
Applied anthropology in the non-profit arena: Results from safe water project evaluations in Haiti
A Multi-Dimensional Measurement of the Health Impact of Community-Based Water Treatment Systems in Uganda
Sustainable WASH, Flourishing Church
Using Qualitative Methods for Actionable Results in International Settings
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