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Bringing Order to the Wide Open Fields
An exciting new tool for WPDx enables users to categorize open text fields for easier analysis and learning.
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Handpumps Joined at the Hip: Two-for-one or Double Trouble?
WPDx Working Group member Tim Foster provides analysis on new and unique water point data from the Gambia.
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New Partnership Established as a Result of WPDx
How Initaitive: Eau leveraged WPDx to identify a new partner in Burkina Faso
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Nearly 500 Records Added by VERGNET HYDRO and AQUASYS
Nearly 500 water points have been added, including the first data in DRC.
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New Partnership Launched with the Indigo Trust
Our newest partnership aims for increased data collection from Africa.
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Water, Spillovers and Free Riding: the Economics of Pump Functionality in Tanzania
Which factors predict the functionality of hand pumps? Do communities free ride on their neighbors’ water sources? Are there positive spillover effects in the maintenance of nearby pumps? And what does this all mean for practitioners? This post gives an overview of the ongoing Economics PhD research of Rossa O'Keeffe-O'Donovan, which tries to answer these questions using data from WPDx.
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First Data Shared in Burkina Faso
Over 100 water point records have been shared in Burkina Faso, providing the first glimpse of water services in that country through WPDx.
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Almost 4,000 New Records Added in Liberia
Almost 4,000 records have been added in Liberia, providing new insights to the water point landscape in this country.
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Over 800 new records added in Uganda
WPDx users can now learn about water points in Uganda with unprecidented detail.
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What's new on the Water Point Data Exchange website
During the last three months, I've had the pleasure to work with our team on the Water Point Data Exchange website. We are now introducing many new exciting features to make the sharing and using water point data easier than ever. In the last seven months, visitors have downloaded the complete water point data set twenty times per month or nearly once per work day.