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The MUS toolkit

The toolkit provides guidance on planning, developing and providing multiple-use water services, based on the experiences of the members of the...
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Matching water services with water needs

The multiple-use water services (MUS) approach takes into account that rural and peri-urban people need water for drinking, cooking, washing,...
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Key Hole Gardening in Lesotho

Making irrigation work for livelihood diversification

Published on: 30/11/2015
Catholic Relief Services (CRS) and government are looking for innovations in their work with smallholder farmers and communities in Lesotho to strengthen their livelihoods and to conserve the environment.

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'Deepening' WaSH interventions in Ethiopia

Published on: 07/09/2015
The Coca-Cola Africa Foundation (TCCAF) provided funding under the Replenish Africa Initiative (RAIN) for Millennium Water Alliance Ethiopia Programme (MWA-EP) partners to 'deepen' their water, sanitation and hygiene interventions. The extra support was used to experiment with new interventions to...

Enhancing benefits from water, sanitation and hygiene interventions : case study from Kalu, northern Ethiopia

This case study examines how the Multiple Use water Services (MUS) approach was applied in Kalu to develop joint domestic water supply and irrigation...
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Enhancing benefits from water, sanitation and hygiene interventions : case study from Kamba, southern Ethiopia

This case study examines how a productive element was added to community water supply in Kamba to increase both water and food security.
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Enhancing benefits from water, sanitation and hygiene interventions : summary report

The Millennium Water Alliance Ethiopia Programme (MWA-EP) has experimented with the Multiple Use water Services (or MUS) approach to improve water...
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Man in Chinacla community using water for the production of construction blocks

MUS can bring benefits to Honduran farmers but requires support

Published on: 23/06/2015
Analysing the outcome of applying guidelines for multiple-use water services in the area MAMCEPAZ area of Honduras.

Benefits of multiple-use water services in Honduras

Analysing the results of using a MUS approach in six municipalities in Honduras.
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Comunitario de Chinacla que hace uso del agua para la elaboración de bloques

Beneficios del enfoque de servicios de uso múltiple

Published on: 23/06/2015
Durante el 2011 y 2014 se analizó la implementación y funcionamiento de seis de sistemas con enfoque MUS en la Mancomunidad de Municipios del Centro de La Paz (MAMCEPAZ) en Honduras.

Servicios de usos múltiples del agua en MAMCEPAZ : sistematización de la experiencia piloto de implementación del MUS en Honduras

La presente sistematización analiza la implementación de los proyectos pilotos de Servicios de Usos Múltiples del Agua en la mancomunidad de MAMCEPAZ...
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Announcement of Multiple Use Water Services Group Meeting in March 2015

Published on: 26/02/2015
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...

Water Master Plans for 4 pilot areas in Turkana, Wajir, Moyale and Marsabit counties

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MUStRAIN Ethiopia

‘Oogsten’ regenwater door lokale bevolking slaat aan in Ethiopië, dankzij IRC

Published on: 04/09/2014
Alternatieve, goedkope oplossingen voor het 'oogsten' van regenwater op het niveau van de lokale gemeenschappen zijn een succes in Ethiopië. Maar voortdurende externe ondersteuning blijft nodig.

Water for cattle

Who is accountable?

Published on: 03/09/2014
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...

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Scaling Up Multiple Use Water Services; Accountability in public water sector performance for health and wealth

Published on: 03/06/2014
Multiple-use services can be scaled up, through a stronger focus on accountability towards users' needs

Addressing livestock needs in Multiple Use water Services

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Manual well drilling : an alternative for shallow groundwater development for multiple use services (MUS)

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The Community Managed Project (CMP) approach and potential to promote multiple uses of water

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Moving up the self-supply technology ladder : mechanised pumping

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Self-supply family wells for Multiple Use water Services

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Final project report : water harvesting for multiple use in Ethiopia (MUStRAIN)

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GLOWS training module : learning about Self-supply

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Water supply from sand rivers for multiple uses

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Pumping it up

Published on: 06/05/2014
A diesel or electrically-powered pump provides a step up the technology ladder for rural households with a family well. The main reason for investing is often to irrigate crops, but the water uses and benefits are multiple.

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