Why the Gates Foundation's pivot on sanitation is wrongheaded and poorly implemented Read more...
An interview with award winning entrepreneur Eelco Osse on zero waste innovation. Read more...
Lessons for government, the private sector, NGOs and donors. Read more...
The latest water and sanitation innovations: approaches, technologies and financing instruments. Read more...
An interview with sanitation entrepreneur Mayank Midha. Read more...
Experts discuss technical and institutional innovations in emergency water and sanitation at IRC Event. Read more...
I was just at the Professional Women in Advocacy Conference . As I looked around the room, I realized it was the first professional conference where I did not know anyone. It made me recognize the WASH sector is lagging behind. Read more...
The King's speech marks the opening of the Dutch parliamentary year. This year he drew attention to the important position of the Netherlands in the international water sector. The budgets that were presented alongside the speech also reflect this, notably with a 6% increase for the budget for WASH... Read more...
Sangeeta Ramola is the former Pradhan (president) of the Gawana Gram Panchayat (local government), in the State of Uttarakhand, India. Her work and effort shows the importance of local political leaders in achieving access to rural water supply that lasts. Read more...
IRC Burkina Faso looked into management models that would permanently reduce the number and length of breakdowns of boreholes with hand pumps in rural Burkina Faso. Read more...
IRC Burkina Faso investigated the factors that explain why boreholes with hand pumps in the Sahel region break down so often. Read more...
During my time in Malawi I learned a lot about the challenges of rural safe water access, and about the challenges of addressing those challenges. I left believing we still have a lot to learn about how change happens, and how to support processes of improvement. This post is to share where I'm... Read more...
IRC Burkina Faso s'est intéressé aux facteurs expliquant la fréquence élevée des pannes des forages équipés de PMH dans la région du Sahel. Read more...
IRC Burkina Faso a demandé à un opérateur privé s'il était possible d'améliorer la qualité de service des PMH sans augmenter le tarif payé par les usagers. La réponse est : oui, mais il faut changer l'échelle de gestion de la maintenance. Read more...
A nice collection of contemporary latrine designs with a high chance of low application for rural and urban context in the South. Read more...
Last week it was World Water Day 2014 , with the topic of "water and energy". I see obvious issues coming by on the water-energy nexus (which by the way is one of those development sector buzz words that I start disliking more every day. I hope the next buzz word is a bit more, uh, sparkling), such... Read more...
Worldwide, traditional toilets are letting people down, with about 2.6 billion people using unsafe ones or defecating in the open. Read more...
This blog post is a response to the video posted by Matt Damon, co-founder of water.org, where he announces a toilet strike to raise awareness for the water crisis. It was first published on WASH Finance , where it has started a lively discussion. Read more...
How do we choose the most effective technologies in the delivery of water supply, sanitation and hygiene services? Read more...
A workshop, 'New Approaches to Scaling Up WASH Technologies', was organised at this year's UNC's Water and Health conference to introduce novel approaches to scaling up WASH technologies. One of these approaches is the Technology Applicability Framework (TAF). Read more...