1. Using SMS and PWX to Track Performance of
Water and Sanitation Projects
Parthiv, Rajesh, &Vamsee
23 October 2011

2. How are projects operating
long term?
Once a project is complete, how do you
find out about how it’s working out?
•Working or not
•Volume of water being extracted
•Water level in well
•Water quality
•# people using the toilet
•Daily revenue from public toilets
•Community maintenance fund: # of
contributors, balance

3. The Team PWX hack
What’s the smart way to get field data?
 SMS
How do you store, collate, and use
SMS reports?
 Build on PWX
 Assign a mobile to a project
 Store the SMS as a project status
report
 Analyze and graph the reports
coming in over time

4. Results
http://dev.peerwater.org/projects/32/reading?type=wl

5. Test our hack
Till November 1, 2011
Send an SMS to +91.9243342000:
@pwxdev p32 rdng_wl_<number>
@pwxdev p32 rdng_rv_<number>
Replace <number> with the value you want to submit
rdng=reading, wl=water level, rv=revenue
Visit http://dev.peerwater.org/projects/32
and use the links ‘Water Level’ and ‘Revenues’
under Project Readings to see the graphs

6. We invite the IT community in Bangalore to
join us
• Help us get data on every water project in India
• Promise to visit one project and report on it