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Disrupting snail food-chain curbs parasitic disease in Senegal

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How to Scale Shistasimias Water Access Points

This approach kills loads of birds with one stone. We were trying to identify an intervention that would have multiple wins. Do you see this being sustainable in the sense that people will carry on doing it? Yes, we hope that it is sustainable. What are your plans for scaling? Yeah, great question. So what we've done is we've flown drones over about 40 different villages across the seasons now. That way we can essentially map where the different species of aquatic vegetation are in these water access points. And then we're linking that information with satellite imagery of these waterAccess points. It sounds like you've got infectious disease control, better access to food and water, poverty, alleviation,

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