Amrita WA Project

Through a partnership of Amrita University and Tel Aviv University, an adaptable household-level water monitoring protocol was developed, dubbed the ‘AmriTAU Protocol’, administered by trained and compensated local women, “Water Ambassadors'' (WAs). This community-based water monitoring protocol integrates an employment structure with existing and novel low-cost, mobile testing technologies, and currently provides data based on multiple objective and subjective measures. Through the launch of concurrent micro-pilots in rural Tanzania and India, we observed that a week-long training and modest compensation enable lay women to consistently and accurately collect data in their communities for extended periods of time.