
Utilizing WPdx in the Amhara Region of Ethiopia
Contributed by Tedla Mulatu, Ethiopia Country Director, Millennium Water Alliance The Millennium Water Alliance (MWA) has been implementing a five-year Water, Sanitation and Hygiene (WASH)
Beta version 1.0 released March 2022
This tool evaluates all possible locations that a water point could be constructed in a given district and evaluates how many people that are not near an existing water point (regardless of functionality) could gain access if a water point was constructed in that location.
For each administrative region, we inspect the ‘uncharted’ areas to find concentrations of population. Uncharted areas are those in which the population is outside of a 1km radius of an existing (functional or non-functional) water point in the WPdx+ dataset.
This analysis is based on the latest available data from the WPdx+ dataset, population estimates from the Facebook High Resolution Population Datasets and administrative boundaries from GADM or HDX (Eswatini, Ghana and Uganda).
WPdx is an open-source repository for data and contributors include governments, NGOs, academic researchers, and others. WPdx has not directly collected this data or verified the accuracy of the data on the platform. WPdx does perform basic validation checks to ensure that required parameters are included and that GPS locations match with the country boundaries of the provided datasets. Additional cleaning and categorizing steps are taken to prepare the dataset for analysis. Full details of these processes can be found on our website. Questions and feedback are more than welcome.
Populations in urban areas, as defined by the EU Global Human Settlement Database are removed from the total administrative region population to provide an estimate of the rural population. While included on the maps for visualization purposes, packaged and delivered water facilities are not included in the analyses to determine served and unserved populations.
Any water points that have been broken, rehabilitated, or constructed since data was uploaded are not included in this analysis. Additionally, household connections are not captured in WPdx. While large urban areas are removed from the analysis if they reach a specified population density, smaller piped schemes with household connections may be missed. As a result, peri-urban areas may be identified as optimal locations for rehabilitation or new construction, even if those communities are already served by household connections. Additionally, because urban populations are based on population density, there may be areas that are locally considered urban which are considered rural in this analysis, or inversely rural areas that are considered urban for this analysis.
Contributed by Tedla Mulatu, Ethiopia Country Director, Millennium Water Alliance The Millennium Water Alliance (MWA) has been implementing a five-year Water, Sanitation and Hygiene (WASH)
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