{"id":1228,"date":"2017-07-24T07:38:43","date_gmt":"2017-07-24T06:38:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/smartcentregroup.com\/?p=1228"},"modified":"2017-08-15T15:54:31","modified_gmt":"2017-08-15T14:54:31","slug":"smart-centres-at-wedc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/smartcentregroup.com\/index.php\/2017\/07\/24\/smart-centres-at-wedc\/","title":{"rendered":"SMART Centres at WEDC"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"wedc.lboro.ac.uk\/conference\/40\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"wedc.lboro.ac.uk\/conference\/40\/ noopener noreferrer\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright wp-image-1230 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/smartcentregroup.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/WEDC.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"107\" height=\"52\" \/><\/a>The SMART Centres were represented at the annual <a href=\"http:\/\/wedc.lboro.ac.uk\/conference\/about.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">WEDC<\/a> conference in the UK (24th to the 28th of July 2017) and had a stand together with <a href=\"http:\/\/www.transforminternational.org\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Transform International<\/a>. Presentations bij the SMART Centres on Self-supply included:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/smartcentregroup.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/Supported-Self-supply-as-a-key-to-reach-water-food-and-poverty-related-SDGs.ppt\">Supported Self-supply as a key to reach water, food and poverty related SDGs<\/a>\u00a0by Henk Holtslag<\/li>\n<li>How can Self-supply help reaching SDG 6? by Rik Haanen<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Other presentations on Self-supply were given by <a href=\"https:\/\/smartcentregroup.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/Socio-econ.-factors-in-Self-supply-invest.-Sutton-WEDC-2017.doc\">Dr. Sally Sutton<\/a>\u00a0and <a href=\"https:\/\/smartcentregroup.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/Making-Univ.-acc.-afford.-Sutton2c-Harvey-WEDC-2017.doc\">Dr. Peter Harvey<\/a>. Both clearly indicated that (supported) Self-supply is essential to reach the SDG 6.\u00a0The presentation of Peter Harvey showed that for Zambia, where a large part of the unserved live in communities of less than 250 people,\u00a0 water access via family wells could be 6 times cheaper than using conventional communal water supply.\u00a0 Compared to communal wells, Self-supply wells have advantages like convenience and more hygiene since water is near, and possibilities of food production for own use and sales to local markets. As presented at the <a href=\"https:\/\/smartcentregroup.com\/index.php\/2017\/01\/29\/smart-centres-well-represented-at-the-7th-rwsn-forum\/\">RWSN conference<\/a> in 2016 other advantages of family wells include the high ownership and the fact that families share water with others so Self-supply can become communal supply. A topic related to Self-supply is house water treatment. A successful programme on selling effective and affordable water filters in Tanzania was presented by <a href=\"https:\/\/smartcentregroup.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/Sust2c-Househ.-water-treatm.-Tanzania.-Maltha.-WEDC-2017.ppt\">Dr. Annemarieke Maltha<\/a> of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.basicwaterneeds.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Basic Water Needs<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Many more papers, presentations and posters can be downloaded under\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/smartcentregroup.com\/index.php\/resources\/\">Resources<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-1229\" src=\"https:\/\/smartcentregroup.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/Jacana_WEDC2017.gif\" alt=\"SMART Centres at WEDC 2017\" width=\"600\" height=\"451\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The SMART Centres were represented at the annual WEDC conference in the UK (24th to the 28th of July 2017) and had a stand together with Transform International. Presentations bij the SMART Centres on Self-supply included: Supported Self-supply as a key to reach water, food and poverty related SDGs\u00a0by Henk Holtslag How can Self-supply help<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[46],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1228","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-highlights"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/smartcentregroup.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1228","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/smartcentregroup.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/smartcentregroup.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/smartcentregroup.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/smartcentregroup.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1228"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/smartcentregroup.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1228\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1277,"href":"https:\/\/smartcentregroup.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1228\/revisions\/1277"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/smartcentregroup.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1228"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/smartcentregroup.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1228"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/smartcentregroup.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1228"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}