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WaterHackathon—a collaborative event between software developers and designers to solve water problems—blogged about the benefits and limitations of Field Level Operations Watch (FLOW). Representatives of Water For People, the World Bank, and IRC International Water and Sanitation Centre shared... Read more...
Residents of East Gonja District discuss challenges associated with the service levels of water facilities in their Local Government Area. Read more...
The Triple-S Project is piloting the Service Delivery Approach in three regions of Ghana: namely the Volta, Brong Ahafo and the Northern Regions. Read more...
The Executive Committee of the East Gonja District has pledged it's commitment to improve water supply to its residents. The commitment was made at a meeting to discuss the state of water systems and management structures in the district. Read more...
Monitoring is a key factor for sustainability of water services delivery. Although many countries are taking steps to integrate monitoring into service provision, there are numerous challenges that need to be addressed, as was highlighted recently at the World Water Forum in Marseille. Read more...
Here, we provide you with the full reference list for "Self Supply: the case for leveraging greater household investment in water supply" Read more...
One of the key challenges contributing to non-functionality of rural water sources is the time lag between the identification of faults and the rehabilitation. This lag, in WASH parlance, is called service down-time, mainly caused by drawbacks in information flow. To reduce these information gaps... Read more...
“The goal of universal access to clean water is far from complete”, says IRC's Stef Smits on CNN International. "Reaching the last 10% of the population -- those living in remote rural areas and on the fringes of big cities - will become increasingly difficult and expensive," he explains in “Going... Read more...
Monitoring of water services delivery is a key factor for sustainability and water for all. This was the key theme of the monitoring and evaluation session at the 6 th World Water Forum in Marseille last week. Read more...
Many African countries, including Uganda, are increasingly replacing the point source with the handpump. In order to support this change in infrastructure, water and sanitation actors in Uganda are applying the Water Supply and Sanitation Board (WSSB) model as an answer to the traditional community... Read more...
During the London Sustainable WASH learning event, which took place on 31 January 2012, representatives of 44 WASH organisations made commitments to support the service delivery approach. They acknowledged that making changes within their respective organisations is important for collectively... Read more...
Some links to press coverage of World Water Day in Uganda. Read more...
The chairperson of Kabarole District, Uganda has hailed Triple-S intervention in the district saying it would lead to improved sustainability of water services. This was during the World Water Day celebrations in the district. Read more...
African governments need to implement sanitation and water plans to accelerate progress made towards improving services especially for the poor and marginalized, demands the Executive Secretary of the Coalition of NGOs in Water and Sanitation (CONIWAS), Mr Ben Arthur. Read more...
The presentation titled: “ Talk sustainability, get action” , focused on how the Triple-S Project mainstreamed awareness raising through all the project phases. Read more...
The Resource Centre Network(RCN) has a published a set of “ WASH Reflections ”, a monthly communiqué on highlights of the National Level Learning Alliance platform meetings held in Ghana. Read more...
Unsafe water source: At least 60 residents of Gulu district in northern Uganda, fell ill after drinking water from wells and streams that were reportedly poisoned by unknown people. Read more...
Ghana is focusing on using a decentralized approach to monitoring rural water services declares the Chief Executive Officer of the Community Water and Sanitation Agency (CWSA), Mr Clement Bugase at the 6 th World Water Forum. Read more...
Nearly 2.2 million people die every year because of WASH-related factors, causing CSOs at the World Water Forum to that conclude that this is recipe for a humanitarian crisis. Read more...
The 6th World Water Forum opened in Marseille with the welcome news that the world had attained the MDG target of halving the number of people without access to safe drinking water way ahead of the 2015 deadline. However, another 800 million people in the world are yet to share in that success. Read more...