It’s critical for researchers and practitioners to assess water usage, needs and risk within the household. This means speaking to women and girls, who might otherwise be overlooked.
Ethiopia
Securing water through intelligent cloud computing
Our researchers are using cloud computing and mobile sensors to monitor groundwater and help ensure that thousands of villages in rural Africa and Asia have a safe, secure supply of water.
Faces from Bangladesh, Ethiopia and Kenya: meet our researchers
We asked six of our researchers from the country teams: what are the biggest water security and poverty issues facing your country? Here’s what they had to say.
Peering over the fence – how water security can bring business and rural communities together
What are companies doing to assess and manage water risks – and could their efforts benefit or worsen the livelihoods for rural people?
Help us improve water security for the poor: apply for a Catalyst Grant!
Do you have a new idea for tackling water insecurity and poverty in Africa or South Asia? Today we open applications for Catalyst Grants of £10,000-50,000.
Water Security: less talk, more action
Over 200 people from 20 countries met to debate using a risk-based framework to respond to the global and local challenges at the Water Security 2015 conference held at Oxford University on 9-11 December.
Can mobile monitoring deliver drinking water security to Africa’s rural poor?
REACH Director Rob Hope discusses the hype and hope of mobile systems to tackle poverty in Africa through better monitoring of drinking water security.
Can climate information improve water security for the poor?
Climate change threatens to undermine efforts to improve water security and end poverty. So how can planners ensure that water and sanitation programmes are resilient to climate variability and change?
How to stop #hard2reach people dropping off the research agenda?
The ‘invisible poor’ are an under-researched group that are critical to understanding the linkages between poverty and water security.
World Water Week 2015
REACH Director Dr Rob Hope and Co-Director Dr Katrina Charles will be at World Water Week in Stockholm, Sweden on 23-28 August 2015. Come and meet them to find out more about the programme at the Oxford University booth.
