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Searching with a thematic focus on Environment, Environment and water, water supply in Malawi

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    Groundwater fluoride levels in villages of Southern Malawi and removal studies using bauxite

    Academic Journals, 2008
    Various natural and anthropogenic ecological factors pollute groundwater because of deep percolation from intensively cultivated fields, disposal of hazardous wastes, liquid and solid wastes from industries, sewage disposal and surface impoundments. Fluorides are one such type of contaminants that leach from
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    Cut out the waste says WaterAid report

    id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2004
    The Decade for Water in the 1980s failed to secure water and sanitation for all. Today the performance of the water sector remains grossly inadequate: more than a billion people have no access to safe water and 2.6 billion have inadequate sanitation. This failure undermines development, and denies people a basic human right.
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    Improving community based management of boreholes: a case study from Malawi

    Land Tenure Center, University of Wisconsin-Madison, 2002
    Examines ways in which the rate of hand-pump sustainability may be improved.The main conclusion is that sustainability is more likely through using good quality products, and by assuring reliable management services are provided by the users. The latter should be backed up by a reliable spares supply chain as well as by locally available mechanics trained in advanced repairs.