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The main purpose of this report is to reflect with key stakeholders involved in trying to scale up HWTS in Ghana (as part of the Safe Water Phase II) on what happened. Read more...
“It is important to rethink things, to bring something new, but this depends on the region, on where you are”. Read more...
« Il est important de repenser les choses, d’apporter du nouveau, mais cela dépend de la région dans laquelle vous vous trouvez. » Read more...
Lessons learned from the Safe Water Phase 2 initiative (2015-2018): a WASH Talk podcast. Read more...
During a stakeholder workshop in Nepal in September 2017, IRC spoke with Anisha Karn, Marketing Manager of SmartPaani, a Nepalese private water company, about business viability, social marketing and innovation in Nepal. Read more...
Interview with Pierre Gilles Duvernay from Antenna Foundation on the Safe Water Phase II programme. Read more...
An action research project has developed a decision-support tool to help deliver arsenic- and salt-free drinking water in Bangladesh. Read more...
Each issue of WASHplus Weekly highlights new resources and publications on a wide range of topics related to water supply, sanitation, and hygiene (WASH) and indoor air quality (IAQ). Read more...
A project to use carbon credits to finance the free delivery of water filters to 4.5 million people has been sharply criticised by a US expert. Kevin Starr calls Verstergaard Frandsen's Carbon for Water initiative a "loopy funding scheme paired with a lousy public health solution". The company... Read more...
The online Community Choices Tool demo is a prototype of a decision-making support tool for the water, sanitation, and hygiene (WASH) sector, being developed by the Pacific Institute. Read more...
The Drakenstein Local Municipality in Western Cape, South Africa, is using a new software system to get a better insight into assets management and the operation and maintenance status of six wastewater treatment plants serving 250,000 people. Read more...
Bucket chlorination is a method for reducing the spread of cholera. This lethal disease derives from bacteria ( vibrio cholera) . The vibrio, which can be spread by water must be treated. An effective treatment for water is to add chlorine, writes Patricia Hugonin, one of the winners of the Source... Read more...
Maggie Montgomery joined the Water, Sanitation and Health Unit (WSH) at the World Health Organization (WHO), in November 2010 to coordinate the International Network on Household Water Treatment and Safe Storage. Read more...