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.
Addressing WASH/IWRM linkages from a narrow problem-based perspective seems most feasible but they can also be addressed within the wider, holistic... Read more...
Sustainable groundwater use is more likely in Indian villages if farmers, other village community members and NGOs work together with researchers and... Read more...
"We can see that what was happening six or seven thousand years ago is still affecting what is happening in the subsurface from a salinity point of view. If you want to know what is happening now, you have to go back in time and try to understand how the groundwater system works," says Oude Essink Read more...
A tale of 12 cities. Which concerns and hopes do city planners, water sector specialists and researchers have for the future. Google scholar Read more...
This book, the first thematic update of the State of the environment in Southern Africa, published in 1994, looks at both freshwater and marine... Read more...
This publication provides decision makers and an interested public in Sweden, as well as concerned people in southern Africa (Angola, Botswana,... Read more...
Water requirements to the year 2025 at regional and national levels are examined in order to assess emerging problems of stress on freshwater... Read more...
The scarcity of freshwater is now an important issue in many parts of the world. Read more...
This document reports on the 1997 Conference on the Management of Shared River Basins, held in Maseru, Lesotho, which sought to investigate... Read more...
Banfora is a small community in Burkina Faso, with a population of approximately 50,000 inhabitants. The water supply for Banfora is tapped from a... Read more...
Assessment of water availability, water use and water stress at the global scale has been the subject of increasingly intensive research over the... Read more...