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United Nations and World Bank announce call for action at World Economic Forum. Read more...
A new year with fresh resolutions. One of 2015 big highlights was the Climate Top in Paris. Now that 196 countries have come to an agreement, what happens next? How will countries follow up on their promises? And how is this related to WASH? Some of the basics in one overview. Read more...
Dutch Ministry of Foreign Affairs, IRC, Simavi, Wetlands International and Akvo partner up to increase sustainability of water, sanitation and hygiene services Read more...
From service delivery approaches to costing studies. IRC posters presented at the 2015 UNC Water and Health Conference in Chapel Hill, USA. Read more...
With 20 percent of the world's GDP and 36 percent of the global population located in severely water stressed areas, the growing demand and competition for freshwater will be one of the biggest global challenges we face. At the Clinton Global Initiative (CGI) Annual Meeting 2015, Wetlands... Read more...
30 and 31 March 2015 IRC will host the Multiple Use water Services Group meeting in The Hague, the Netherlands. The goal of the meeting is to identify the potential contributions of a MUS perspective to the water resource management and water tenure debates, in particular ongoing global efforts to... Read more...
Who are public water service providers held accountable to? To the politicians and policy makers who define their goals and allocate public resources to achieve those goals? Or are they accountable to the citizens, including the poor, to whom they are providing their services? In this blogpost by... Read more...
This article was written by Charles Batchelor and John Butterworth as part of a series of posts on water resources management. The first discusses the thorny problem of 'integration' in management of water. Read more...
Multiple-use services can be scaled up, through a stronger focus on accountability towards users' needs Read more...
A study on whether water sources classified as "improved" are indeed safe triggered debate on the level of effort that needs to go into water quality monitoring and into measures to improve water quality Read more...
In this article John Butterworth explains why better access to water and sanitation will pay dividends in helping the most vulnerable people adapt to climate change. He argues that providing water and sanitation services for everyone builds resilience, and should be key part of the climate change... Read more...
The SWITCH project was a five year experiment focused on some of the key sustainability challenges in urban water management. In a number of cities around the globe, it set out to test what was needed for a transition to more sustainable urban water management through a combination of demand-led... Read more...