Safe Water 2 Programme Is ‘A Space for Innovation’
Published on: 15/03/2018
The Safe Water 2 Programme is "a place for innovation," says Hester Foppen of Aqua for All . As a partner in the ' Safe Water Phase 2' Programme , IRC spoke to her about business viability and innovation at a stakeholder workshop in Nepal in the fall of 2017.
Linking safe water businesses to the human right to water and sanitation
Published on: 20/11/2017
The drive for reaching SDG 6 has created a big demand from private safe water businesses to help governments supply safe water.
Governments have to stimulate Safe Water Businesses
Published on: 04/10/2017
An enabling environment will stimulate financiers to invest in Safe Water business.
Real time monitoring of boreholes enables critical services to be sustained during the drought in Somali Region
Published on: 12/09/2017
With many of the seasonal water sources failing due to poor rains, there has been considerable reliance on a limited number of high-yielding water schemes whose ongoing performance is critical to the drought response.
Safely managed water and sanitation for all - a big ask for many countries
Published on: 17/07/2017
New report by WHO and UNICEF sets the baseline for ambitious global goals.
A Sustainable Development Goal to strengthen national sector monitoring systems!
Published on: 20/02/2015
In this blog on the UN-Water meeting that was held in Geneva last month, Joseph Pearce and Ton Schouten give an intriguing insight in the monitoring of the new sustainable development goal (SDG) for water. They argue that the SDGs, as they are now formulated, demand for strengthening national...
When access to improved water points does not lead to use: Understanding consumption patterns in Burkina Faso
Published on: 06/02/2015
The correlation between access to drinking water, health, nutrition and other development indicators is well known. At sector level, this often translates into the requirement to allocate additional funding to new infrastructure (in the rural sector, mainly to water points), that would naturally...
Private sector perspective on the WASH Sustainability Forum 2014
Published on: 29/07/2014
Vergnet Hydro, a specialized company looking for sustainable solutions for drinking water supply in developing countries, had to be represented at the WASH Sustainability Forum 2014 in Amsterdam. The theme was tools for evaluation and monitoring of development activities in water, sanitation and...