Based on 20 detailed successful case studies from across India, this book outlines future rural water supply approaches for all lower-income... Read more...
To help understand the impact of different interventions, this paper proposes the adoption of systems-based analysis for looking at water point... Read more...
While a high proportion of people In Ethiopian have access to improved water and sanitation services, only a small minority receive services that... Read more...
This paper presents findings on water and sanitation service levels from 16 small and medium towns in four regions of Ethiopia. Read more...
Should the Community-Based Management (CBM) model remain a central development strategy? Whay we need to know about water point functionality as it... Read more...
Under severe conditions of water scarcity, it is vital to keep motorised boreholes pumping across Ethiopia's Somali region. Read more...
Rehabilitation of one primary school borehole has been successful but many others still depend on unreliable water. Read more...
Despite massive investments in rural water supply in Tanzania, the number of people with access to improved water sources has not increased. This begs the question, what could be the reason for this stagnation? Read more...
20 February 2017 you can listen to the very first episode of IRC's podcast WASH Talk. Read more...
The latest water and sanitation innovations: approaches, technologies and financing instruments. Read more...
Top-down efforts are ineffective for connecting low-income urban populations to centralised water, sanitation or electricity services. Bottom up,... Read more...
264 million people in rural areas of the pan-European region rely on small-scale water supply and sanitation systems. A new publication outlines the policy options for supporting them. Read more...
Self-supply is the term given to families helping themselves through development of their own water supplies. Usually based on wells dug near the home or fields, such water supplies meet a range of domestic and food production needs. The regional government are launching a new programme to support... Read more...
The brief highlights the importance of mainstreaming water and sanitation in the policies and plans of other sectors, and how the management of... Read more...
Can Self-supply help combat Neglected Tropical Diseases (NTDs) in rural Ethiopia? Read more...
Physical works are progressing well in most small towns. Major challenges are water sources in Abomsa, and acquisition of land for sludge drying beds... Read more...
An overview of the challenges Watershed - empowering citizens will address. Read more...
Chlorination of drinking water is more effective in plastic than clay containers. Read more...
Ceramic pot filter (CPF) water production can be predicted given turbidity and initial flow rate. Read more...