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Rémi Kaupp gravatar image
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Hi Emily,

Transport (such as carts like that) has often been studied mostly in relation to solid waste management, and for agricultural / livelihoods development, less so for WASH. WEDC, Practical Action and Skat have done some work on low-tech transport, often on how to design carts and so on. Practical Action in particular has great resources that are worth exploring.

However I don't know of a study of what people tend to use for carrying / transporting water (there are studies like this one showing why carrying is really bad, though). It may be worth making this question public to have more answers.

We're certainly very happy to see appropriate technologies being developed to ease water transport, and they're often used informally (no specific examples in mind though).

Rémi