Pushing other essential infrastructure, such as clean drinking water, sewer systems and mass transportation, gets caught in a similar chicken-and-egg syndrome as the residents desperately want to join the grid but gatos of all kinds undermine the economics of the arrangement.

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The war destroyed major water points and water systems, forcing millions of Liberians to go without access to clean and safe drinking water and proper sanitation facilities.

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These challenges include such acute development needs as installing piped drinking water for households, deploying high-quality irrigation systems with locally-accessible replacement parts, and using the latest mobile technologies for banking, sharing vital health data, paying salaries, and checking commodity prices.

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That includes bridges and roads, drinking water and wastewater pipelines, levees, power lines, solid waste systems, and a host of other things.

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When storms hit, these systems can overflow, sending untreated sewage into rivers, lakes, beaches, and drinking water supplies.

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It aims to establish a platform for exchange of knowledge with respect to methods for characterisation of colloidal and particulate matter in these systems and to cover the technological aspects of particulate matter in different water treatment processes such as drinking water, wastewater and landfill polluted waters.

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