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$200K awarded in 2004
Lex van GeenLamont-Doherty Earth Observatory
Andrew Gelman et al.Depts. Statistics and Political Sciences
John Immel Consulting
Shuky EhrenbergYale Law School
Thomas Depuydt et al.Columbia Business School
Kazi Matin AhmedDhaka University
Pop. ~130 million80,000 villages10 million tubewells
Winkel et al., Nature Geoscience 2008 N. Osman BAMWS/NAMIC
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5 million field-kit tests largely unused
Safe depth estimates (or minimum depth)available for 40,000 villages but not disseminated
Waiting for government approvalto disseminate safe depth estimatesvia mobile phones:
-Health line-SMS
Follow-up:Commercial testingUpdating estimates with new dataSustainable insuranceOther countries
~50% of 40 million subscribers