Sustainable Development Goals

[Tal Woolsey]

Hello ABINET Members

I am posting this to the Group as it is the Latest Data from the World Health Organization on the Sustainable Development Goals and it is important to us in the ABINET.

Tal 

Dear colleague,

We are pleased to announce the new WHO/UNICEF Joint Monitoring Programme for Water Supply and Sanitation (JMP) 2017 Thematic Report: Safely Managed Drinking Water. The report considers the Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) target for universal, equitable access to safely managed drinking water and outlines JMP plans for enhanced monitoring of drinking water in the SDG era. It also examines the availability of data on safely managed drinking water services. 

• Download the report (English, French, Spanish)
• Access the latest WASH data 

New 'ladders' for monitoring drinking water services at home, at school and in health facilities are presented in the report, together with proposals for enhanced monitoring of inequalities and affordability of drinking water services. The WHO/UNICEF JMP 2017 Progress Update and SDG Baseline report will be published at the end of June. 
The WHO/UNICEF Joint Monitoring Programme for Water Supply and Sanitation is responsible for global monitoring of progress towards the Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) targets on drinking water, sanitation and hygiene (WASH).
Please share this email with your networks as appropriate.

Sanjay Wijesekera
Chief of Water, Sanitation and Hygiene               
Programme Division
UNICEF HQ  

[ngo ndjon marie]

Merci Tal
Salut à tout le réseau


Ngo Ndjôn Marie

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En date de : Ven 10.3.17, Tal Woolsey <twoo...@cawst.org> a écrit :

Objet: [abinet] Sustainable Development Goals
À: "ABINET - African Biosand Filter Implementers Network" <abin...@googlegroups.com>
Date: Vendredi 10 mars 2017, 14h40

Hello ABINET
MembersI am posting this to the Group as it is the

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[Andrew Smith]

Dear all,

I wonder how many of you use laboratory or field incubators for testing the water as part of your projects?  This may be because you want to test communities water to show them the need for biosand filters.  Or it may be tests that you do to show the community that Biosand water is significantly cleaner than the water they are putting in them!  Or indeed you may be doing these tests as part of quality control measures to make sure that you have the sand just right.

I'd like to know if anyone has experience of using different incubators and then I'd like to know what you love and hate about them.

Lynd UK are potentially on the point of releasing an updated design to their MX range which is regularly used by people like the WHO for doing country-wide surveys (e.g. Ethiopia, Lebanon and Surinam were all done with Lynd incubators).   If you've not seen these incubators then check out their range at https://www.lyndproducts.co.uk/product-category/incubators/

Working in Ethiopia on Household Water treatment we found them ideal for a larger range of tests including IDEXX, Petrifilm, CompactDry, and the traditional (old-school) aluminum plates.

I'm now doing some research for Lynd on what their customers want!  So, I'd love to connect with people who currently use, or currently need field or laboratory incubators and learn from you as users.

Kind regards

Andrew Smith

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[Bruce Taylor]

Thanks Andrew

 

We have been using egg incubators as they are relatively inexpensive.  Depending on the location, we also use a solar panel, battery and inverter to make the alternating current required for the egg incubator:

http://bluewaterbiosciences.com/index.php?main_page=product_info&cPath=2&products_id=5

 

We also like the most probable number coliplate for coliform & E. Coli.:

http://bluewaterbiosciences.com/index.php?main_page=product_info&cPath=1&products_id=1 (note, price is Canadian $ and they provide a humanitarian discount from the prices listed)

 

The advantage is that it is much more visible.  The whole plate is filled up from one source being tested. The more cells that turn blue, the more contaminated the water.  I tested water from the bowl of my toilet before I left and one cell out of 100 turned blue.  The sample from the borehole well in Jerusalem, South Sudan (near Yei, South Sudan) had 100 out of 100 cells turn blue (photo below). According to the chart, the water from this borehole well contained 800 times more bacteria than the bowl of the toilet in our office!

 

The sample from Jerusalem was collected during a Community Health Agent (CHA) Training session conducted in Yei, South Sudan.  Upon seeing the result, the CHA that we were training from that community grabbed the test plate and ran home to meet with the elders from the community.  As the goal is to build awareness of the need for safe water, the test plate served a great purpose.

 

 

Kind regards,

 

Bruce

 

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Enviro-Stewards Inc.

Office: 519.578.5100 Cell: 519.497.8580

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[Andrew Smith]

Dear All,

    this is a gentle reminder to connect with me about what you love and hate about any field incubators or test kits that you have used in testing water quality in your countries.

You'd be amazed how useful even the most simple insights are so please don't be shy.

Kind regards

Andrew

[ROBINSON MASONGO]

Hello Andrew

I hope you are doing well. We have used a couple methods. One of this is the CBT kit by Aquagenx. This was simple since it did not require any electricity or laboratory. We provided the whirl pak bags and the CBT bags to the Community Health Volunteers and once they collected the samples they could easily hang them in their houses. Once a color change was detected then we could determine presence/absence of E. Coli  in their drinking water. In some communities it was not readily acceptable because of association to witchcrafcy and some households could not agree for their water to be tested, especially from water containers. 

The other method we have employed is the Colilert. I once had to sleep with the vials for incubation. I rolled up a couple of vials in a sock and tied them around my body for incubation. My family thought I was bewitched. After incubation then i subjected the vials to a fluorescent lamp the results were visible. I did this for water storage containers for several households. When i presented results to households, many of them had a shift of their water storage behaviors.

I love the two test methods because they require no powering or gadgets to carry out. They do not need a laboratory and they can be done in the remotest village in the world. and since you can also teach the households to do the tests by themselves, you kind of empower people to take charge of their water testing. The flip side is that people are accustomed to complex laboratory procedures and may not believe in the  results from these simple methods. The reagents are not readily available in the local markets and so you have to keep relying on importation or purchasing from the bigger cities. And then of course there is the aspect of skepticism or fear from the communities. This is a foreign thing to them and they may consider it an abomination in the community. 

I hope this gives a bit of information Andrew

Blessings 

Robinson

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[Martha Gebeyehu]

Hi Andrew,

I think you know our test KIT. EKHC uses a Wagtec digital incubator which requires electricity and need place to set up to do the testing in safe environment.

Warm Regards,

Martha

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[yonatan Sani Abegaz]

Hi Andrew and All ABINET Members,

I like the way how Robionson explanation and the way how he manage the incubation process, it is more African context and practice.it good to use local know-loges  and  skill as far as it works and gives the intended result. we don't need to wait until every thing is fully established. We use same CBT Aquagenx test kits in our Native energy Hydraid water filter project here in Ethiopia, it is very simple and handy   we do have small incubator which has 50 liter capacity we  put all collected samples on it before the sample time getting six hours. which means the incubator should placed in a near by town or city which has at least 6-8 hours power sources.

With regards!

Yonatan

 

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[Helen Timoffee]

Hi Andrew;

The Malawi Water Project has used the EC-Kit.

The test kit includes a Colilert bottle and Petrifilm. Both are well known and respected products for basic water testing for microbiological contaminants. They are portable and easy to use. They will give an indication of fecal contamination. 

 

Colilert will show either the presence or absence of both Total Coliforms and E. coli (fecal contamination). It comes with a UV light  to confirm E. coli as Colilert will not tell the degree of  contamination in a source.

It is a good choice for a simple, portable system for field work. However, as Robinson said, incubation in the field is difficult. The kit comes with a cloth belt that can hold about 5 test tubes. You need to wear the belt for 24 hours. It was not uncomfortable sleeping with it, however there is an issue with it being strange in the community. 

Also, we found the petri-film melted in hot temperatures without electricity for cooling so we lost several of those. We have stopped water testing as we are going further out to more remote communities further away from electricity. The cost of water testing for our small project is not worth it at this point. We go by health of the beneficiaries.

Helen Timoffee

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[Masinde, Abraham]

Good afternoon Martha,

How are you doing.

Hope you keeping well.

Abraham.

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