Water trucking is an alternative water source when other, more sustainable sources cannot be found. Trucking is especially useful in emergency situations or as a response to severe drought.
====Africa====
Water truckers supply mostly high-volume water consumers with cisterns (private villas, government and business office buildings). The market for water trucking services is most developed in cities where the concessionaire’s level of service is poor—long cutoff periods and many unserved areas, as in Nairobi, Nouakchott, Dar es Salaam, and Kampala—and less so in cities where the primary water mains reach most of the settled area, as in Dakar and Abidjan.
Purchase of a water tanker truck, even a second-hand one, is a major investment, but may be recouped within a year’s time, especially in the East African cities where demand for alternatives to piped water is strong.
==Field experiences==
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'''Examples of investments made by independent water and sanitation providers in African cities.''' Source: [http://www.wsp.org/sites/wsp.org/files/publications/af_providers.pdf Independent Water and Sanitation Providers in African Cities: Full Report of a Ten-Country Study.] © International Bank for Reconstruction and Development/The World Bank. 2000.
==Manuals, videos, and links==
==Acknowledgements==
* [http://washafrica.wordpress.com/2011/07/18/eastern-africa-drought-7-million-in-need-of-wash-services/ WASH news Africa]. washafrica.wordpress.com
* Collignon, Bernard and Vézina, Marc. [http://www.wsp.org/sites/wsp.org/files/publications/af_providers.pdf Independent Water and Sanitation Providers in African Cities: Full Report of a Ten-Country Study.] © International Bank for Reconstruction and Development/The World Bank. Hydroconseil. IRC. April 2000.