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ADM-LAB Living labs for Adaptive delta management in Bangladesh Read more...
A central role for the youth and nature based solutions. Read more...
There was a time in Uganda when water and environment issues were not topics of national debate Read more...
Providing safe water to hard-to-reach villages in a cost-effective way in Arusha. Read more...
A review of the Tanzanian water sector budget for 2021/22. Read more...
Lessons from the Central African Republic and Mali. Report of a WASH debate. Read more...
The role of civil society in evidence-based advocacy for the human rights to water and sanitation. Report of a WASH Debate. Read more...
The SDG financing gap will be history, when natural infrastructure (NI) enters the economics and financing computations. 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...
An interview with Dr. Ritesh Kumar of Wetlands International South Asia. Read more...
The Global Water Integrity Outlook was launched in The Netherlands on 15 April 2016. Read more...
This third post - in a series of articles on water resources management by Charles Batchelor and John Butterworth - looks at the idea of water security. In the first article we discussed IWRM and the 'i' for integration in water resources management, and the second looked at water services from a... Read more...
This second post - in a series of articles on water resources management by Charles Batchelor and John Butterworth - looks at water services from a water resource management (WRM) perspective. In the first article we discussed IWRM and the 'i' for integration in water resources management. 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...
En 2013, la politique des Pays-Bas en matière d’aide au développement s’est réorientée vers le monde des affaires considéré comme le principal moteur d’une croissance durable au détriment de l’aide publique au développement. Read more...
This article was written by Charles Batchelor and John Butterworth as part of a series of posts on water resources management. The first discusses the thorny problem of 'integration' in management of water. Read more...
This year the rains started in March and in June the water ponds still have water in them. Mwende is happy because now she only has to walk ten minutes to fetch water for her family. Read more...