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The Rural Water Supply Network (RWSN) is a global, multi-stakeholder network focused on achieving universal access to safe, affordable drinking water for all rural people worldwide. Established in 1992 as the Handpump Technology Network (HTN), [ 1 ] [ 2 ] the organization originally concentrated on the development and maintenance of handpump ...
A road in the boondocks of Pennsylvania State Game Lands Number 13, Sullivan County, Pennsylvania The boondocks is an American expression from the Tagalog (Filipino) word bundók ("mountain"). It originally referred to a remote rural area, [ 1 ] but now, is often applied to an out-of-the-way area considered backward and unsophisticated by city ...
The United States Rural Utilities Service (RUS) administers programs that provide infrastructure or infrastructure improvements to rural communities. These include water and waste treatment, electric power, and telecommunications services. [ 2 ]
Jul. 22—JAMESTOWN — ECO Sanitation is serving areas outside of Jamestown city limits and intends to provide quality customer service, according to Lance Selzler, co-owner of the business.
CLTS takes an approach to rural sanitation that works without hardware subsidies and that facilitates communities to recognize the problem of open defecation and take collective action to become "open defecation free" and clean up. The concept was developed around the year 2000 by Kamal Kar for rural areas in Bangladesh. CLTS became an ...
The Rural Housing Service (RHS) is an agency of the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA). Located within the Department's Rural Development mission area. RHS operates a broad range of programs to provide moderate- low- and very-low-income Americans in rural communities with:
Ecological sanitation, commonly abbreviated as ecosan (also spelled eco-san or EcoSan), is an approach to sanitation provision which aims to safely reuse excreta in agriculture. [1] It is an approach, rather than a technology or a device which is characterized by a desire to "close the loop", mainly for the nutrients and organic matter between ...
The RDS was created in 2001, when the Farming and Rural Conservation Agency merged with the then Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food's regional service centres. The body was charged with the implementation of the England Rural Development Programme (ERDP), as well as a range of other rural services, placing the agency at the forefront ...