Under the SMARTerWASH project, an inventory on over 20,000 boreholes and hand dug wells fitted with hand pumps and about 828 piped schemes from 119 districts in the 6 administrative regions of Ghana was carried out. The data from the 119 districts in the 6 regions showed that about 26% of the handpumps are not working whilst a further 13% are performing sub-optimally. Non-functionality was however low in the case of piped schemes accounting for only 14% of the over 800 piped schemes covered. Most water facilities including handpumps and piped schemes deliver less than 10% of basic services. Majority of the hand pumps in the regions surveyed provide less than 20 lpcd of water and are not within the 500 meters of walking distance from the farthest houses as required by the national guidelines. This folder contains the six regional factsheets on rural and small towns water service monitoring compiled and published in September 2015 by CWSA, in collaboration with IRC and the respective MMDAs.

Financial support was provided by Agentschap.nl of Netherlands under the SMARTerWASH Project, the World Bank under the Sustainable Rural Water and Sanitation Project and the Conrad N. Hilton Foundation under the “Strengthening Local Government Capacity to Deliver Water Services” Project.