Cracking the leaks to stem the tide of water loss

Cracking the leaks to stem the tide of water loss

In a modest room in Beira, Mozambique, 14 men and women lean over notebooks and blueprints. Some scribble calculations; others follow a trainer pointing to a wall chart outlining water flow. This is no ordinary workshop. It’s part of a targeted effort to tackle...
Where toilets overflowed, a new system offers hope

Where toilets overflowed, a new system offers hope

For more than three decades, Joyce Wangui has sold sugar, cooking oil, and mobile phone airtime from a tin-roofed kiosk in the winding alleys of Mukuru Kwa Njenga, one of Nairobi’s most densely packed informal settlements. Her kiosk, weather-beaten but orderly, is the...