MANTIS - Monitoring and ANalytics To Improve Service

该项目将探讨与更广泛地部署一个名为MANTIS的“经过验证的”原型手泵监控器相关的机遇和挑战。该研究将寻求进一步开发和部署MANTIS系统，并将考虑与其应用于印度农村相关的技术，社会和市场问题。预计这项工作将有助于制定更适当的供水点维护战略，将定性（以人为本）和定量（技术）的见解纳入与当地用水有关的日常做法，并作出反应。预期的改进将涉及减少修理损坏或性能差的手泵的等待时间。及时修理是必不可少的，因为当手泵发生故障时，许多地方社区将不得不使用保护较少的水源，从而增加了他们遭受各种与水有关的疾病的风险。损坏的手动水泵给依赖它们的农村社区带来了明显的困难，因此对可持续发展目标（SDG）6中普及安全饮用水的具体目标产生了重大影响。该项目将促进工业、学术和第三部门利益攸关方之间的相互学习。反过来，这将被用来提高公众和政策的手水泵维修策略的理解。

This project will explore the opportunities and challenges associated with the wider deployment of a 'proven' prototype hand pump monitor called MANTIS. The study will seek to further develop and deploy the MANTIS system and will consider the technological, societal, and market issues associated with its application to rural India. It is anticipated that this exercise will help cultivate more appropriate maintenance strategies for water points by integrating and responding to qualitative (human-centred) and quantitative (technical) insights into daily practices related to local water consumption. The anticipated improvements will relate to reduced waiting times for repairs to broken or poorly performing hand pumps. Prompt repairs are essential because when hand pumps malfunction, many local communities will resort to using less protected water-sources, increasing their exposure to a wide range of water-related diseases. Broken hand water pumps impose obvious hardships upon the rural communities that are reliant on them, and therefore have significant implications for the Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) 6 target of universal access to safe drinking water. This project will facilitate cross-learning between industrial, academic, and third sector stakeholders. In turn, this will be used to enhance both public and policy understanding of hand water pump maintenance strategies.