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Feedback Requested: Proposal To Add Taxonomy for #water_tech & #water_source and Add New #scheme_id and #notes fields

Three new proposals have been developed by a contsortium of organizations to modify the WPDx standard and the global WASH community is invited to provide feedback.

WPDx Sets its Sights on Achieving its Updated Mission

In 2014, the Water Point Data Exchange (WPDx) was launched to tackle a widely-identified issue: organizations in the WASH sector were not coordinating as well as they could be. Part of the issue, as identified by numerous sector experts, was that data about water access projects were not shared transparently or in a standardized way.

The Era of Precision WASH

We are entering a new era in the WASH sector. Nearly a decade ago, a small NGO called Water for People developed a mobile phone application that could allow users to map their water infrastructure. This innovation became Akvo Flow and provided a massive jump beyond the previous approaches of paper and pen.