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Weekly volume of water pumped for handpumps monitored with Smart Handpump technology, Kwale County, Kenya

Dataset title Weekly volume of water pumped for handpumps monitored with Smart Handpump technology, Kwale County, Kenya
Dataset creators Patrick Thomson, University of Oxford
Dataset theme Geoscientific Information
Dataset abstract

This dataset contains a summary of the weekly volumetric output of pumps monitored using Smart Handpump sensors for 2014 and 2015. Grants that permitted the data collection include: Groundwater Risk Management for Growth and Development project (NE/M008894/1) funded by NERC/ESRC/DFID’s UPGro programme; New mobile citizens and waterpoint sustainability in rural Africa (ES/J018120/1) ESRC-DFID; Groundwater Risks and Institutional Responses for Poverty Reduction in Rural Africa (NE/L001950/1) funded by NERC/ESRC/DFID's UPGro programme

Notes:

1. The accuracy of these volume figures should be considered to be +/- 20%.

2. The dataset has gaps due to variable signal, and some attrition due to damage and vandalism.

3. Not all pumps in the study area were under monitoring.

References:

[1] P. Thomson, R. Hope, and T. Foster, “GSM-enabled remote monitoring of rural handpumps: a proof-of-concept study,” Journal of Hydroinformatics, vol. 14, no. 4, pp. 829–839, 05 2012. [Online]. Available: https://doi.org/10.2166/hydro.2012.183

[2] Behar, J., Guazzi, A., Jorge, J., Laranjeira, S., Maraci, M.A., Papastylianou, T., Thomson, P., Clifford, G.D. and Hope, R.A., 2013. Software architecture to monitor handpump performance in rural Kenya. In Proceedings of the 12th International Conference on Social Implications of Computers in Developing Countries, Ochos Rios, Jamaica. pp. 978 (Vol. 991).

Dataset content dates 01/01/2014 - 15/12/2015
Dataset spatial coverage Kwale County, Kenya
Dataset supply format MS Excel
Dataset language English-United Kingdom
Dataset discovery metadata record Discovery Link to the dataset's BGS Discovery Metadata record
Dataset publisher British Geological Survey
Dataset publication date 19th February 2020
Dataset digital object identifier(DOI) 10.5285/1103c4ef-6d49-4d75-8ba9-d5b418892278
Dataset citation text Thomson, P. (2020): Weekly volume of water pumped for handpumps monitored with Smart Handpump technology, Kwale County, Kenya. British Geological Survey. (Dataset). https://dx.doi.org/10.5285/1103c4ef-6d49-4d75-8ba9-d5b418892278
Constraints and terms of use This data set is available under Open Government Licence, subject to the following acknowledgement accompanying any reproduced materials: "Contains data supplied by permission of the Natural Environment Research Council [YEAR]".
Access the dataset https://www.bgs.ac.uk/services/ngdc/accessions/index.html#item132765
Further information https://upgro.org/consortium/gro-for-good/