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Comparative performance of rural water supplies during drought - dataset

Dataset title Comparative performance of rural water supplies during drought - dataset
Dataset creators DJ. MacAllister, British Geological Survey
A.M. MacDonald, British Geological Survey
S. Kebede, University of KwaZulu-Natal
S. Godfrey, UNICEF
R. Calow, Overseas Development Institute, London
Dataset theme Geoscientific Information
Dataset abstract

Ethiopia experienced severe drought in 2015-16. Many rural communities experienced declines in the performance of their water supply systems. As a result UNICEF commissioned a real-time monitoring and responsive operation and maintenance programme for point source rural water supplies across Central, Northern and Eastern Ethiopia. The water point monitoring survey was coordinated by UNICEF and conducted by World Vision Ethiopia and Oxfam Ethiopia. Data was collected between January and May 2016. Akvo Flow, a mobile survey tool, was used to collect data using questionnaires which were completed by enumerators and uploaded to central servers in near real time. The dataset includes data on functionality, access, usage and water quantity from 5196 rural water points. UNICEF provided the dataset to BGS. BGS reorganised, cleaned, and conducted quality control and analysis of the dataset. A companion paper has been published with more details of the methodology and results of the monitoring survey, https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-020-14839-3

Dataset content dates 26/01/2016 - 24/04/2016
Dataset spatial coverage Ethiopia
Bounding Box Latitude/Longitude (WGS84)
Northing 7.170 - 9.896
Easting 37.716 – 42.867
Dataset supply format Comma-separated values file (.csv)
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 13/05/2020
Dataset digital object identifier(DOI) 10.5285/ca37e3ce-2555-4b30-8877-74f4634041fc
Dataset citation text MacAllister, D.J., MacDonald, A.M., Kebede, S., Godfrey, S., Calow, R. (2020): Comparative performance of rural water supplies during drought - dataset. British Geological Survey. (Dataset). https://dx.doi.org/10.5285/ca37e3ce-2555-4b30-8877-74f4634041fc
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#item135145
Further information

MacAllister, D. J., MacDonald, A. M., Kebede, S., Godfrey, S., Calow, R. Comparative performance of rural water supplies during drought. Nature Communications 11, Article number: 1099 (2020) https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-020-14839-3