Our approach to water
Water is one of our most precious resources. Around 2 billion people lack safely managed drinking water and 3.6 billion lack safely managed sanitation. If nothing changes, the world will not have enough water to meet demand by 2030.
A strong data-driven approach to water and the WASH sector can help us reach SDG 6 by improving decision making, better targeting scarce resources, and creating sustainable solutions for water resource management.
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Water is one of our most precious resources. Around 2 billion people lack safely managed drinking water and 3.6 billion lack safely managed sanitation. If nothing changes, the world will not have enough water to meet demand by 2030.
A strong data-driven approach to water and the WASH sector can help us reach SDG 6 by improving decision making, better targeting scarce resources, and creating sustainable solutions for water resource management.
Want to know more?
How a data-driven approach can help
1. Data-driven climate resilience
A data driven approach allows us to accurately predict the status of existing WASH infrastructure, as well as floods and droughts.
2. Sector-wide collaboration
With robust tech infrastructure and data processes, we can effectively collaborate and closely monitor SDG 6.
3. Real time data sharing
Collecting and sharing real time data on water quality, WASH behaviours and infrastructure, and water-related outbreaks, we can significantly improve public health.
Ebook: Design data-driven programmes that deliver results effectively
A step-by-step guide for programme managers in international development.
Our recent water related projects
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The WASH SDG programme is a consortium of Dutch NGOs dedicated to sustainably improving water, sanitation, and hygiene services for more than two million people in Bangladesh, Ethiopia, Indonesia, Nepal, Tanzania, Uganda, and Zambia. Its three-pronged approach consisted of increasing demand for improved WASH services, improving the quality of service provision, and improving governance of […]
Custom WASH Management Information System for subnational water offices -
The Niger Basin Authority (NBA) is an intergovernmental organisation that promotes cooperation between member states (Benin, Burkina Faso, Cameroon, Ivory Coast, Guinea, Mali, Niger, Nigeria and Chad) and contributes to the improvement of living conditions in the basin through the sustainable management of water resources and associated ecosystems. Together with partners, Akvo is looking into […]
Predicting floods and drought in the Niger river basin -
The government of Kenya needs a way to effectively monitor sanitation and hygiene facilities nationwide. Akvo is developing an integrated Real Time Management Information System (RTMIS) to collect, analyse and visualise all sanitation and hygiene data in both rural and urban Kenya, allowing the Ministry of Health to improve sanitation and hygiene for citizens nationwide. […]
Building a real-time monitoring platform for sanitation and hygiene across Kenya
Our latest thoughts on the sector
Our ideas for a data-driven water sector
We have 10+ years of experience designing and implementing data-driven solutions for our WASH and water partners. Based on our expertise, we’ve developed a number of concepts for potential solutions that we believe could significantly boost impact.
Explore our ideas below.
2. Data Exchange Initiave (DEX)
Our regional hubs
Tech solutions
Our expertise
We apply the principles of open source software, open content and open data to all of our work.
Find out why and how.