Every Drop
Water points funded with their maintenance built in, and quarterly testing published whatever it shows.
540
Water points
91%
Functional at 24 months
Quarterly
Testing
230,000
People served
Why it works the way it does.
The countryside is full of handpumps that worked for eighteen months. Every Drop budgets for year three at the point of installation - a village committee, a ring-fenced maintenance fund and a paid caretaker.
Quarterly independent testing runs across every site. Where a source fails we publish the result and fix it, including when the source is one we installed.
Ninety-one per cent of sites are still functional at two years, against a sector norm far below that. The maintenance money is the entire reason.
The design decisions.
- 01Maintenance fund and paid caretaker committed at installation
- 02Village water committee with signing authority
- 03Independent quarterly testing, published in full
- 04Filtration added where testing shows it is needed
Partners on the ground.
- Gram panchayats
- Independent testing laboratories
- District water departments
This initiative sits inside Clean water and sanitation.
540
Water points
91%
Functional at 24 months
Quarterly
Testing
230,000
People served
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