The paper provides background about Ghana and discusses the problems of water supply in crowded communities and in rural areas. Read more...
The Data Envelope Analysis (DEA) technique is proposed as an aid to the ex-post evaluation of projects in operation. DEA was used to calculate the... Read more...
A WaterAid project in rural Ghana uses two technologies for constructing hand-dug wells: concrete-lined and block-lined. The concrete-lined method... Read more...
Many of the worst features of urban poverty in the Third World are environmental: poor access to safe water, unsanitary conditions, smoky kitchens,... Read more...
Ghana has recently decided to shift from centralized maintenance of handpumps to community managed maintenance. Read more...