There have been modest improvements in water and sanitation provision in Africa, but there is still a long way to go. Most citizens rate their governments’ performance in this sphere poorly.
Hand pumps are used in Africa to help people get access to clean water.
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Geosciences can be a valuable tool in the fight to provide Sub-Saharan Africa with safe drinking water.
Southern Africa has rivers, like the Zambezi, that run through a number of countries. How best to manage this is the challenge.
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Southern African countries do not face water scarcity and do not need to build joint water projects. But they do need talk to each other to avoid misunderstandings.
Deputy Director of the Afrobarometer & Associate Professor in the Department of Political Science and MSU’s African Studies Center, Michigan State University