Water and Sanitation

How does one start this blog? Honestly I have no idea. A long reflection of the colonial history of Africa? Some funny personal anecdotes? I'm going to start by addressing why I have taken this module. Coming from the department of the Built Environment the notion in my mind of water and development in Africa was one of pollution and contamination due to expanding urbanisation. An exploration into current and future infrastructures in developing areas of the African continent. I am however aware that as a white European my interest is not to become a saviour, to solve everyone's problems with European ways of doing things or European mind sets. I have experienced, whilst volunteering on a construction site in Fiji, how unsuccessful this can be; a process that works in one region of the world is not necessarily designed for another. Instead I hope to learn more about individual countries, regions, cities throughout the African continent which are evolving new processes concernin