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"Water should be colourless in all aspects, that is, it should not have any political colour, nor should it be seen as a means to gain votes. Our only motivation should be, to guarantee the human right of access to water, for everyone and forever". Mayor of San Antonio de Cortés, Honduras Read more...
En el blog pasado , planteaba la pregunta ¿cuáles son los mecanismos que podrían hacer que la Comisión Municipal en Agua y Saneamiento (COMAS) logre mantenerse en el tiempo? Allí exponía posibles soluciones para ser discutidas por el sector. Ahora, llega el turno de hacer lo mismo con la Unidad de... Read more...
En estos días nos estamos preparando para echar a andar muchas de nuestras ideas y sentar las bases para cumplir con el gran objetivo que va en línea con los ODS , que todos y todas puedan gozar de los servicios de agua y saneamiento para hoy y para siempre. Esto ha hecho que nos hagamos muchas... Read more...
Are government-led and private sector approaches mutually exclusive? Read more...
For less than US$12 per person per year a town in Honduras can ensure that everyone's water supply keeps working. Read more...
The COMAS – Municipal Water and Sanitation Committee – of the municipality of El Negrito (in the Department of Yoro, Honduras), is strongly committed to providing universal water, sanitation and hygiene (WASH) services to its citizens. But it needs a plan to get there. And it needs to make a plan... Read more...
One of the nicest water-related customs in Honduras is the breaking of the pot. When a village gets connected to a water system, part of the inauguration ceremony consists of an old woman from the village symbolically throwing a clay water-pot on the ground, so that it breaks. She will never need... Read more...
114 proyectos de agua financiados por 11 programas diferentes y a través de 19 modalidades de trabajo. Read more...
Jacques Dutronc's song sums up how the WASH sector is waking up to the Paris Declaration, cleaning up the mess of often uncoordinated aid efforts. Read more...
So said Luis Romero of CONASA (the Honduran water and sanitation policy-making body), in response to the graphs below. Read more...
Anyone who works in the water sector cannot have missed the consultations and debates on the post-2015 goals for water and sanitation. Read more...
A few weeks ago, an interesting email discussion was held on “water point mapping” D-Groupof the Rural Water Supply Network (RWSN). Part of the discussion focused on how much it costs to map or monitor all water systems in a country. Various figures were floating around in the discussion. But when... Read more...
Just as Orpheus descended into the underworld to bring his wife Eurydice back to life, the water sector invests heavily in bringing broken-down water supply systems back into function; often to find those same systems slipping back into disuse, as soon as the engineers turn their head to look away... Read more...
Could lack of definition be undermining the impact of effective but costly support? Read more...