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Nation states at the 2023 UN Water Conference in New York including Uganda made a collective pledge as the international community to restrict the use of lead in drinking water supply systems. But this pledge is not yet known globally, regionally and locally. Read more...
Empowering young women to become the water managers of the future in India Read more...
As we (re)discover groundwater this World Water Day, let's not just look under our feet and think about the resource that lies down there. Read more...
In de nasleep van orkaan Eta steunen IRC en Water For People de oproep van de Hondurese overheid aan de internationale gemeenschap en roepen ze op tot onmiddellijke actie voor de wederopbouw van talloze water en sanitaire voorzieningen die door de oorkaan verwoest zijn. Read more...
In the wake of Hurricane Eta, IRC and Water For People support government appeal and call for immediate action to restore a decade's worth of water and sanitation development in Honduras Read more...
Report of a webinar organised by the SuSanA India chapter, WaterAid India, IRC and the India Sanitation Coalition. Read more...
Bongo district in the Upper East Region of Ghana became known throughout Ghana for the quality of its water –for the wrong reason. The district is a global hotspot for fluoride concentration and water from some wells was damaging the health of its population. Read more...
Asutifi North District is doing a pilot study on conducting smart tests. Read more...
Reporting back on the radio to the public on progress made around water and sanitation in Asutifi North District. Read more...
During a Watershed field trip, a community leader experiences a lightbulb moment. Read more...
Since my first post about some first-hand experience of running a WASH business within the Ethiopian business framework I've been wondering how much of the challenges is due to being a foreign business. Maybe the thought occurred to a few readers. Read more...
This blog looks at the experience of using 'Payment-by-Results' in Tanzania's water sector, and how adaptive programming is key to bridging the gap. Read more...
Does using a household water filter help in improving water quality and reduce incidence of diarrhoea? Read more...
The drive for reaching SDG 6 has created a big demand from private safe water businesses to help governments supply safe water. Read more...
An enabling environment will stimulate financiers to invest in Safe Water business. Read more...
Akvo's lunch lecture at the Dutch Ministry of Foreign Affairs. Read more...
On the global carbon market big companies like Coca-Cola reduce their carbon footprint by investing in safe water projects that reduce CO2 emissions. Read more...
In the Safe Water II programme (2015-2018) we map tools and approaches that local businesses in household water treatment products use to start and scale up their business. Read more...
The correlation between access to drinking water, health, nutrition and other development indicators is well known. At sector level, this often translates into the requirement to allocate additional funding to new infrastructure (in the rural sector, mainly to water points), that would naturally... Read more...
La corrélation directe entre l’accès à l’eau potable et le niveau de santé, de nutrition et autres indicateurs de développement est aujourd’hui largement reconnue. Sur cette base, le secteur conclut souvent qu’il est nécessaire d’allouer davantage d’investissements aux infrastructures (en milieu... Read more...