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Welcome to WATERSPOUTT Research Project Website

WATERSPOUTT aims at providing safe drinking water to communities who rely on unsafe sources. The consortium is carrying out a technological development programme to advance three applications based on Solar Disinfection (SODIS), which can make water safe to drink after it has been collected.

In parallel, a social science programme has been structured to make sure that the technologies are adopted by the target communities in rural Africa, with the support of the local authorities and in an economically sustainable way.

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Visit to the field sites in Tigray (Ethiopia)

WATERSPOUTT team members Kevin McGuigan (Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland), Javier Marugán Aguado and Angela Garcia URJC (Rey Juan Carlos University) are in Ethiopia gathering data on the use of sodis solar jerrycans. The team visited the field sites in Harenah, in Tsawunet and the one in Grat-Tsatse which is about an hour North-East of Mekelle. This is the most recent site to start in the field trial and there are some challenges to be faced around compliance and record keeping.