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creation of a network of small businesses, pump functionality can be massively improved. Pump functionality in their delivery area increased from less than 55% to better than 95% and all this was delivered at a cost of around £12 per individual gaining access to water (including all start-up costs). This is less than half the cost of a traditional rural small community water point.
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