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Aquaya end-user research published in leading environmental engineering journal

The journal Environmental Science and Technology has recently published our work on end-user preferences for competing household water treatment products among subsistence farmers in western Kenya. The peer-reviewed article is available here.

Aquaya supporting Murdoch University's International Conference on Integrated Water Management

From 2-5 February 2011, Murdoch University’s Environmental Technology Centre will be convening a conference on Integrated Water Management in Perth, Western Australia. Other conference supporters include the American Water Resources Association (AWRA), the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP), and UNESCO-IHE. More information is available here.

Nairobi water business kits™ workshop

As part of Aquaya’s google.org-funded activities on water refill enterprise development, we convened a workshop dedicated to small-business approaches to safe water delivery in June of 2009. Our objective was to bring key players from the Asian water refill industry to present their experiences to a gathering of African small businesses, entrepreneurs, researchers, NGOs, and funding institutions. Among the presenters were Budi Darmawan of Indonesia’s APDAMINDO association of water refill business owners and equipment suppliers and Amit Jain of India’s Naandi Foundation. Kenyan water businesses and entrepreneurs included Anthony Mumbura Githae of the Nyamasaria Water Works, Davis & Shirtliff, IvoryConsult, and Pureflow. Donors and multilateral agencies included the International Finance Corporation, the US-based Lemelson Foundation, UNICEF, and the World Bank’s Water and Sanitation Program (WSP).

Workshop presentations can be downloaded below:

• Ranjiv Khush, Aquaya: Water Refill Businesses: Asia and Kenya
• Jeff Albert, Aquaya: Understanding the consumer in the delivery of safe drinking water
• Nicky Khaki, Aquaya: Building your own Water Refill Business

• Amon Anderson, Acumen Fund: Summary of Acumen Fund’s Investment Strategy
• Mbogo Byuni, PSI: The Growth of Private Sector Distribution of Waterguard
• Budi Darmawan, APDAMINDO: Small-scale Water Purification Businesses: Indonesia Case-Study
• Kevit Desai, Kenya Private Sector Alliance: Entrepreneurial Strategies for Reaching the Poor with Clean Drinking Water
• Alie Eleveld, SWAP: the Safe Water & AIDS Program
• Anthony Mumbura Githae: Nyamasaria Water Works
• Amit Jain, Naandi: Global Water Treatment Businesses
• Alice Lin Demas, IFC: Safe Water for All: Harnessing the Private Sector to Reach the Underserved
• David Maina, Pureflow Water Solutions: Introduction to Pureflow Water Solutions
• Nick Moon, Kickstart International: Kickstarting Wealth and Health
• Nick Pearson, Acumen Fund: Acumen Fund’s Water Portfolio and Community Water Investments
• Mawunyo Puplampo, WHI Ghana: Introduction to WaterHealth Ghana
• Rick Rheingans, Emory University: Determinants of Household Water Quality in a Peri-urban Area of Kisumu, Kenya
• Kameel Virjee, World Bank WSP: Financing Rural Water: Communities and Commercial Banks in Kenya
• Joseph Usabimana, AquaRwanda/AquaVirunga: PPP for the Design, Rehabilitation, Financing, and Operation of the Water Supply Systems in Rwanda

SEED magazine article on Water Business Kits™

Aquaya’s Jeff Albert and Ranjiv Khush discuss Water Business Kits™ with SEED magazine.

Evaluating the Sustainability and Impacts of Water, Sanitation, and Hygiene Interventions

Measuring the sustainability and impacts of different water, sanitation, and hygiene implementation strategies among the underserved is essential for enabling policymakers, donors, and practitioners make informed decisions on intervention priorities.

Together with the UC Berkeley School of Public Health and Sri Ramachandra Medical College in Chennai, India, Aquaya recently completed an epidemiological evaluation of the long-term health and socioeconomic impacts of a water, sanitation, and hygiene intervention among rural communities of Tamil Nadu state in Southern India. The Open Square Foundation supported the evaluation, and the final report is available here.

Clean Water Solutions for the Developing World Roundtable at Haas School of Business

Click here to view Jeff Albert’s presentation at the Clean Water Solutions for the Developing World Roundtable at the Haas School of Business at UC-Berkeley on October 29, 2009.

A Smarter Planet - Water podcast

Use the interface below to listen to Aquaya principal and co-founder Jeff Albert join other experts in a recent IBM-produced water podcast.

PUR® Standard Operating Procedure

Aquaya worked with PUR® in two emergency response contexts (the Indian Ocean tsunami of December 2004 and the Central Java earthquake of May 2006). We have developed a Standard Operating Procedure (SOP) for distributing PUR® in disasters, intended for use by emergency responders. The SOP document can be downloaded in English, Spanish, Urdu, and Bahasa Indonesia.