About the Authors

Caleb Cord

Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Writing – original draft

caleb.cord@colorado.edu (CC); amy.javernick@colorado.edu (AJW)

Affiliations Department of Civil, Environmental, and Architectural Engineering, University of Colorado Boulder, Boulder, Colorado, United States of America, USAID Sustainable WASH Systems Learning Partnership, United States Agency for International Development, Washington, DC, United States of America

Amy Javernick-Will

Roles Funding acquisition, Methodology, Project administration, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

caleb.cord@colorado.edu (CC); amy.javernick@colorado.edu (AJW)

Affiliations Department of Civil, Environmental, and Architectural Engineering, University of Colorado Boulder, Boulder, Colorado, United States of America, USAID Sustainable WASH Systems Learning Partnership, United States Agency for International Development, Washington, DC, United States of America

Elizabeth Buhungiro

Roles Investigation, Validation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations USAID Sustainable WASH Systems Learning Partnership, United States Agency for International Development, Washington, DC, United States of America, Whave Solutions Ltd, Kampala, Uganda

Adam Harvey

Roles Validation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations USAID Sustainable WASH Systems Learning Partnership, United States Agency for International Development, Washington, DC, United States of America, Whave Solutions Ltd, Kampala, Uganda

Karl Linden

Roles Funding acquisition, Project administration, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Department of Civil, Environmental, and Architectural Engineering, University of Colorado Boulder, Boulder, Colorado, United States of America, USAID Sustainable WASH Systems Learning Partnership, United States Agency for International Development, Washington, DC, United States of America

Competing Interests

AJW is an Academic Editor for PLOS Water. The authors declare that they have no known competing financial interests or personal relationships that could have appeared to influence the work reported in this paper. For the sake of transparency, the authors acknowledge that two authors, Adam Harvey and Elizabeth Buhungiro, are employed by a professionalized maintenance service provider operating in the three districts where the study was conducted in Uganda, Whave Solutions.