REACH Water Security | Delivering safe water in Africa and Asia

90% of the world’s population have access to infrastructure that should give them safe drinking water, yet 2.1 billion people are still going without this vital resource. Prof Katrina Charles (University of Oxford) Sara Marks (Eawag - Swiss Federal Institute of Aquatic Science and Technology), Mr Nurul Osman (HYSAWA, Dr Saskia Nowicki (University of Oxford) and Mr Robert Gakubia (Blackburn Associates Ltd) describe how REACH programme research teams in Kenya, Bangladesh and Nepal are addressing the challenge of delivering safe water.
Read more in three REACH Stories of Change:
The Safe Pani model: Delivering safe drinking water in schools and healthcare centres in Bangladesh
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Scaling up results-based funding for rural water services
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Fit for Purpose Labs
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REACH is a global research programme to improve water security for the poor by delivering world-class science that transforms policy and practice. REACH is led by Oxford University with international consortium of partners and funded with UK Aid from the UK Government’s Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office. Visit reachwater.uk/ to find out more.
Image credits: Luftor Rahman, FundiFix, Sonia Hoque, Jeff Waweru, REACH Bangladesh, Sara Marks, Michael Vogel, Rubika Shrestha, Eric Miller/World Bank