Can tech solutions solve urban water scarcity?

Halving the number of people without access to safe water supply is one of the UN millennium goals to be met by 2015. But how to plan infrastructural systems and solutions for clean water facilities in marginalized urban settlements – often even absent from the city map?

The M-maji application tries to answer the question: “Tech firm hits on solution to water scarcity in slums”.

Habitat Norway and FIVAS mark the World Water Day with an evening seminar on the access to safe water in the worlds cities and informal settlements 20 March 19.00 at Internationalen, Oslo. More on the event here

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