Whenever he is asked to name his top three priorities for Ethiopia’s lowland regions, the president of the Afar Regional State of Ethiopia, H.E. Awol Arba, never hesitates. 

In rural Kenya, where only 35 percent of households have access to safe drinking water, Margaret worried about the quality of the water she carried home each day from a borehole near the village of Lumino.

As part of its capacity-building program for African stakeholders in the water, sanitation, and hygiene sectors, the African Water and Sanitation Association (AfWASA), with funding from the United States Agency for International Developm