Lessons from Tanzania show that payment by results can help stakeholders achieve improved water point functionality. Read more...
Recently I listened to a speech by Arnold Schwarzenegger on how the climate movement is stuck and needs to reset. I think our approach to solving the water and sanitation crisis could help. Read more...
The same capacities that help us adapt to COVID-19 can be used to face climate change. Read more...
Pure water has become a powerful selling point for communities in the Wassa East district of Ghana, proving that people will indeed pay for water if they can be sure it is safe. Read more...
Bongo district is increasing its reliance on small town water systems to provide safe water in areas where the population is more concentrated. Deep boreholes provide water to storage tanks and standpipes across the area – with the potential also to make household connections. Read more...
Asaloko is a small community in the Bongo district where lives have been transformed through the introduction of safe water and effective sanitation. Householders no longer carry water long distances, children are better able to learn and the whole environment has been cleaned up. Read more...
When Wassa East District Assembly audited 202 water points in 2015 as part of the SMARter WASH project they found that 50% were not functional. They developed a four-year Sustainable WASH Plan to ensure sustainable access to safe water for all communities in the district. Read more...
The era of eyes on, hands off are gone! Responsibility for rural water and sanitation shifts from local government to new national agency. Read more...
The Indian Government is now embarking on another ambitious 'Jal Jeevan Mission', promising piped water to every household in India by 2024. Read more...
WaterAid publishes new resource guide. Read more...
Linking WASH and IWRM, as demanded by SDG 6, is essential but hard. With pragmatism and a problem based approach it can be done. Read more...
Meeting Sustainable Development Goal 6 requires solutions that focus on integrated rather than sectoral approaches. Read more...
Achieving sustainable WASH services requires problem-based approaches focusing on a specific watershed or municipality. Read more...
Roel Blesgraaf looks back on day 2 of the Africa Water Week. Read more...
IRC is working with partners on a research project called 'Community Water Plus'. It consists of case studies throughout rural India. The objective is to understand which models of community managed water supplies - with professional support - work well, and why, so that we understand how they can... Read more...
Using numbers in local planning for water resources and services helps stakeholders to make (conflicting) interests clearer and choices more explicit. Read more...
This second post - in a series of articles on water resources management by Charles Batchelor and John Butterworth - looks at water services from a water resource management (WRM) perspective. In the first article we discussed IWRM and the 'i' for integration in water resources management. Read more...