IRC Associate
Freelance writer, journalist, editor, consultant and trainer. Peter researches, writes and edits mainly on water and sanitation, health and development. He is has been acting as consultant to the BRAC WASH project in Bangladesh supporting their communications work and providing training, and was for five years consultant to IRC's WASHCost project. Over the past years, Peter has been supporting the IRC Ghana team in communicating their district based work.
The Department of Public Health Engineering (DPHE), which is the nodal agency for water and sanitation in Bangladesh, has accelerated sanitation... Read more...
Open defecation poses a health threat for the fishing communities in Trivandrum district, Kerala, India. This paper proposes four alternative... Read more...
This article outlines the results of research and development carried out on the Bush Pump over the last six years. Since 1989, the "B"... Read more...
Fear of a cholera epidemic that could have cost thousands of lives promted officials to think ahead, and plan for the inevitable cholera cases... Read more...
This study was undertaken to ascertain the levels of aluminium in surface and ground waters used for water supply in Madras city and also to assess... Read more...
The present expansion of water improvement programmes in developing countries is hardly adapted to provide rural areas with an adequate supply of... Read more...