Could text messages improve water quality?

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A new mobile phone reporting system with potential lessons for the carbon offsetting industry is helping to accelerate sanitation projects across the developing world

As the number of victims from Zimbabwe's cholera outbreak reaches 1,000, the disaster highlights the need for small-scale, low-cost water projects. Now a new non-profit project called Akvo is aiming...

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