In this blog on the UN-Water meeting that was held in Geneva last month, Joseph Pearce and Ton Schouten give an intriguing insight in the monitoring of the new sustainable development goal (SDG) for water. They argue that the SDGs, as they are now formulated, demand for strengthening national... Read more...
Unlike droughts, floods and oil spills, non-functioning water and sanitation systems seldom make the headlines, even though water crises top the list of global risks. Read more...
IRC country director of India Kurian Baby on how to realise Mahatma Gandhi's dream of Clean India, and what he wishes for his country in 2015. Read more...
What is needed to find out whether a combination of centralised and decentralised systems generates more sustainable and resilient urban water... Read more...
Emerging lessons from the use of building blocks for sustainable un-sewered urban sanitation in sub-Saharan Africa. Read more...
In Chennai, India, stakeholders support the establishment of an independent state groundwater authority to secure sustainable water supply. 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...
S'agissant d'assurer des services adéquats pour les pauvres, les approches basées sur la tarification ne suffisent pas. Read more...
Le 14 et 15 Octobre 2014, CARE International et IRC Burkina Faso ont organisé à Dori, un atelier sur le genre et la participation des femmes dans la fourniture des services d'eau. Cet atelier entre dans le cadre du programme de l'USAID pour l'amélioration de l'approvisionnement en eau potable et... Read more...
This tool is one of 25 tools for WASH sustainability reviewed as part of the Triple-S project. Read more...
Document outlining the process of development, verification and refinement of service level and sustainability indicators for rural water services in... Read more...
Briefing note describing the life-cycle costs approach and why it was developed. Read more...
This paper takes a hard look at the limited achievements of the rural water sector, points to areas where approaches need to be radically improved... Read more...
The challenge to WSS practitioners now is to deliver sustainable sanitation services to more than two billion people by 2015. Read more...
The book is the final output from the research project 'Guidelines for Sustainable Handpump Projects in Africa' and is designed to assist those... Read more...
Update, supplemented with learning gained from Methodology for Participatory Assessment with Communities, Institutions and Policy Makers (MPA)... Read more...