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[[Image:water trucking 2.jpg|thumb|right|200px|Photo: [httphttps://www.worldvision.com.au/global-issues/world-emergencies/current_emergencies/hornofafricadrought2011/WaterTruckingKenya.aspx horn-of-africa-food-crisis World Vision.]]][[Image:water trucking 3.jpg|thumb|right|200px|Photo: [httphttps://www.worldvision.com.au/global-issues/world-emergencies/current_emergencies/hornofafricadrought2011/WaterTruckingKenya.aspx horn-of-africa-food-crisis World Vision.]]]
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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.
===Manuals, videos and links===
* [http://www.ircwash.org/news/eastern-africa-drought-seven-million-people-need-wash-services Eastern Africa drought: seven million people in need of WASH services]. WASH news Africa. July 2011.
* ARTICLE: [httphttps://www.worldvision.com.au/global-issues/world-emergencies/current_emergencies/hornofafricadrought2011/WaterTruckingKenya.aspx Water trucking allows droughthorn-of-africa-food-affected community in Kenya to stay putcrisis Horn of Africa Food Crisis]. World Vision. May 2012.* ARTICLE: [http://www.irinnews.org/Report/88047/SOMALIA-Community-leaders-pool-together-to-deliver-water-to-IDPs SOMALIA: Community leaders pool together to deliver water to IDPs]. IRIN News. February 2010, Nairobi.* ARTICLE: [http://www.unicef.org/infobycountry/ethiopia_59887.html In Ethiopia, water trucks provide essential life-line amidst drought]. UNICEF. September 2011.* ARTICLE: [http://www.irinnews.org/Report/88796/MYANMAR-Coping-with-water-scarcity-in-the-Ayeyarwady-Delta MYANMAR: Coping with water scarcity in the Ayeyarwady Delta] IRIN. April 2010. "People in our village are always busy getting water. They are either waiting for water trucking or looking for places where we can fetch water. We can't do any other work in the dry season."
* Pike, Jill. [http://dspace.mit.edu/bitstream/handle/1721.1/33043/62120151.pdf Water by Truck in Mexico City]. MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY, June 2005.
===Acknowledgements===
* [httphttps://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.