{{A British parliamentary inquiry has heard that more than $650m ( \u00a3420m) worth of European Union aid to Africa may have been badly spent.}}<\/p>\n
The House of Lords Committee on External Affairs is looking into about $1.3bn worth of water projects in sub-Saharan Africa during the past decade.<\/p>\n
Fewer than half of a sample of 23 projects met poor people’s needs, the committee heard from EU auditors.<\/p>\n
The problems ranged from the planning stages to the projects’ implementation.<\/p>\n
Auditor David Bostock told the committee that his sample study was fairly representative of the water aid worth over $1.3bn (\u00a3800m) that had been undertaken by the EU in the past 10 years.<\/p>\n
Water aid projects are usually a combination of supplying clean water and, equally importantly, building toilets that stop the spread of disease.<\/p>\n
The auditors found that the equipment managers chose – like pumps and pipes – was, on the whole, appropriate.<\/p>\n
The problems came in the sustainability of the projects.<\/p>\n
In some cases, not enough local people were trained in how to maintain the necessary equipment – so after a few years it just stopped being used.<\/p>\n
But the biggest problem was finance – or getting long-term agreement from the communities and governments of poorer countries on how the water supply would be funded.<\/p>\n
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