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Can decentralised asset management contribute to stop the rot?

No one is denying that financing hand pumps in sub-Saharan Africa is a bad thing but Dr Kerstin Danert suggests that finance should also be made available to support existing installations too.

 Dr Kerstin Danert has recently been researching the topic of rapid handpump corrosion and its sibling - poor quality handpump components (credit: Larry Bentley)

Dr Kerstin Danert has recently been researching the topic of rapid handpump corrosion and its sibling - poor quality handpump components (credit: Larry Bentley)

Somehow there tends to be more excitement about new items, or new infrastructure than in looking after the artefacts that one has or in maintaining what has already been built. Sadly, this is also the...

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