{
  "id": 7733,
  "url": "https://doi.org/10.1002/2014wr016770",
  "title": "Understanding handpump sustainability: Determinants of rural water source functionality in the<scp>G</scp>reater<scp>A</scp>fram<scp>P</scp>lains region of<scp>G</scp>hana",
  "summary": "Safe drinking water is critical to human health and development. In rural sub-Saharan Africa, most improved water sources are boreholes with handpumps; studies suggest that up to one third of these handpumps are nonfunctional at any given time. This work presents findings from a secondary analysis of cross-sectional data from 1509 water sources in 570 communities in the rural Greater Afram Plains (GAP) region of Ghana; one of the largest studies of its kind. 79.4% of enumerated water sources wer",
  "authors": "Michael B. Fisher, Katherine F. Shields, Terence Chan, Elizabeth Christenson, Ryan Cronk, Hannah Gordon Leker",
  "category": "research",
  "topics": "healthcare,environment",
  "orgs": null,
  "regions": "africa",
  "published_at": "2015-09-07T00:00:00.000Z",
  "fetched_at": "2026-07-14T16:33:27.487Z",
  "source_slug": "openalex",
  "source_name": "OpenAlex",
  "source_homepage": "https://openalex.org",
  "ethics_ai_record_url": "https://ethics.ai/record/7733",
  "original_url": "https://doi.org/10.1002/2014wr016770",
  "evidence_status": "source-only",
  "attribution": "via ethics.ai"
}