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Watershed partners beat the drum for public finance, civil society and good water governance. Read more...
Water is central to the lives of pastoralists in Mille woreda, and water development projects have huge impacts. How these play out for the local community is a complex story. Read more...
Climate resilient WASH is about new ways of working across the traditional humanitarian and development sectors. We went to one of the harshest spots in Ethiopia, and surely in the world, to find out more. Read more...
My new role at Cranfield University this year is to drive forward a novel and very exciting project known as WEEP (Water-security in Ethiopia and the emotional response of pastoralists). WEEP has immense potential to 'break new ground' in understanding the everyday and ongoing challenges of water... Read more...
A checklist to effective adoption and implementation of the pay-as-you-fetch model. Read more...
"If you do not yield to anyone's advice, the world will teach you the lessons it wants you to learn," my mother always said. Often, this was a cautionary tale and it usually came after realizing that no matter what she said or did, you would not yield to her advice. Somehow, this is the same... Read more...
Linking WASH and IWRM, as demanded by SDG 6, is essential but hard. With pragmatism and a problem based approach it can be done. Read more...
Meeting Sustainable Development Goal 6 requires solutions that focus on integrated rather than sectoral approaches. Read more...
Achieving sustainable WASH services requires problem-based approaches focusing on a specific watershed or municipality. Read more...
Big data analytics is a new window of opportunity for the Indian water sector. Read more...
How and why businesses in the Safe Water 2 programme do their monitoring. Read more...
Developing a collaborative strategic plan for municipal water services needs to focus on structural changes. Read more...
Developing a collaborative master plan for Kabarole District to attract more national government funding. 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...
The latest water and sanitation innovations: approaches, technologies and financing instruments. 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...
Can Self-supply help combat Neglected Tropical Diseases (NTDs) in rural Ethiopia? Read more...
Can service delivery approaches help deal with the interrelated threats of climate change, water security and disease outbreak? Read more...