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UN Sustainable Development Goal
SDG 6: Clean Water and Sanitation
Water, sanitation, resource management and resilient services.
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Solar Irrigation in Africa: Financing Farm Returns Within Water Limits
Solar irrigation can make water cheaper to lift without making it more abundant, or crops more valuable. Recent African programmes are shifting attention from equipment access to the institutions around it. This paper examines how public and private capital can finance durable farm returns while respecting water limits, and why pump sales, loan repayment and sustainable agricultural development must be measured separately.
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Urban Water Utilities in Africa: Reducing Non-Revenue Water to Finance Reliable Service
Africa's urban water challenge is often described as a shortage of dams, treatment works and capital. Those constraints are real. But water already produced is also disappearing through leaking pipes, inaccurate meters, illegal connections and weak billing before it can sustain either households or utilities. Kenya's regulator reports that non-revenue water rose to 48 per cent in 2024/25; a 2026 World Bank programme found losses above 45 per cent among all 18 participating Southern African utilities. This paper asks when loss reduction becomes more than a technical repair programme: when can it become the operating platform for reliable service, fairer access and credible long-term finance?
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