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Fantastic shoutout for mWater from USAID for World Water Day!

A teaching lesson on interpreting binned data. We know waterborne disease is there, but where is it? Fever? Consumption? Likely.

There is nothing more difficult to take in hand, more perilous to conduct, or more uncertain in its success, than to take the lead in the introduction of a new order of things. For the innovator has enemies in all those who profit by the old order, and only lukewarm defenders in all those who would profit by the new order, this lukewarmness arising partly from fear of their adversaries and partly from the incredulity of mankind, who do not truly believe in anything new until they have had actual experience of it. - Marchiavelli

I am absolutely in love with this new feature mWater released this week. It is a game changer in aid. Using the satellite data-derived population data layers fr...om Columbia University and Facebook, we now have map layers that can quantify users of a water system or people without a decent water source. Until now, it's always been wild algorithms just guessed at by governments, NGOs, and other stakeholders. Learn more here: https://portal.mwater.co/