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Background The sampling strategy is a short document team that describes the justification for the choices made concerning sampling. This strategy enables the teams to get approval from their "LA" members and compare across the project. The structure of report follows the administrative structure... Read more...
Urban municipalities are looking into several means of improving sanitation in their cities. An article written by WASHCost India gives insight into practices of a small town in Andhra Pradesh. Read more...
The IRC 2010 international symposium posed a series of challenges to the water and sanitation sector to improve its ability to cost and finance sustainable services – and to understand the price that communities pay when those services fail. Read more...
The WASHCost India team has recently published an article regarding key issues facing community members and their need for better governed WASH services. Read more...
It costs a lot of money to provide low quality water and sanitation services – more expensive technology does not always raise standards. Research in four countries has found that switching from boreholes to small piped services can triple the costs but often leaves people with the same sub-... Read more...
The WASHCost approach is to work with locally based learning alliances to gather and share research. Read more...
The senior civil servant in charge of rural water and sanitation in the state of Andhra Pradesh has challenged WASHCost to throw “intense light” on some of the alarming problems India is facing in conserving water and delivering services to an ever growing population. Read more...