Abstract:The main objective of this thesis is to contribute to humanitarian efforts to provide responsive and reliable groundwater supply to displaced populations living in refugee camps or settlements across Sub-Saharan Africa. A large-scale transition is underway from rural towards peri-urban and urban settings, hence, from scattered hand pumps towards centralized motorized boreholes connected to distribution networks. However, with this shift in water supply strategy, the need to achieve yields an order of magnitude… Show more
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