multiple-use services

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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Matching water services with water needs

Water security, Supporting institutions

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.

Water security

'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...

Water security

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 Kalu, northern Ethiopia

Water security

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: Case study from Kamba, Southern Ethiopia

Water security

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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Enhancing benefits from water, sanitation and hygiene interventions: summary report

Water security

MUS can bring benefits to Honduran farmers but requires support

Man in Chinacla community using water for the production of construction blocks

Published on: 23/06/2015

Analysing the outcome of applying guidelines for multiple-use water services in the area MAMCEPAZ area of Honduras.

Water security

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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Servicios de Usos Múltiples del Agua en MAMCEPAZ

Seguridad del agua

Beneficios del enfoque de servicios de uso múltiple

Comunitario de Chinacla que hace uso del agua para la elaboración de bloques

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.

Seguridad del agua

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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Servicios de usos múltiples del agua en MAMCEPAZ

Water security

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 security

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

The Kenya Arid Lands Disaster Risk Reduction project is helping the Kenyan government and local communities in dealing with flash floods and droughts...

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Water Master Plan - Pilot area in Turkana - June 2014

Water Master Plan - Pilot area in Marsabit - Version 2 - December 2014

Water Master Plan - Pilot area in Moyale - Version 2 - December 2014

Water Master Plan - Pilot area in Wajir - Version 2 - December 2014

Water veiligheid

‘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 security

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...

Water security

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

Water security

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

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Final project report: Water harvesting for Multiple Use in Ethiopia (MUStRAIN)

Water security

GLOWS training module : learning about Self-supply

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GLOWS: learning about Self-supply

Water security

Water supply from sand rivers for multiple uses

As part of the MUStRAIN project in Ethiopia, various approaches to water harvesting, multiple use of water and ecological sanitation have been...

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MUStRAIN case study - Water supply from sand rivers for multiple uses

Water security

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.

Water security

Water in the sand

Published on: 06/05/2014

Sand dams can provide sufficient water for domestic and productive uses even in some very dry environments. But the implementation and scaling-up challenges should not be overlooked.

Water security

A conference to improve resilience and build water strategies in Kenya Arid Lands

Published on: 07/04/2014

On the 4 th of April, a conference on “Improving Resilience Building Water Strategies in Arid Lands” has gathered about 100 participants in Nairobi, Kenya. The conference aimed at sharing experiences of the Kenya Arid Lands Disaster Risk Reduction (KALDRR) WASH program with experts of the WASH and...

Sécurité de l’eau

Discussion en ligne sur les services d’eau à usage multiple, le 28 Avril – 24 Mai 2014

Published on: 25/03/2014

Service d'eau à usage multiple Potentiel et défis pour les habitants en milieu rural.

A quick guide to IRC in Ethiopia

Published on: 17/02/2014

Working with the Ethiopian government and partners to deliver universal access to WASH services.

Water security

Family wells for family needs

Published on: 12/02/2014

A MUStRAIN case study looking at how family wells can be upgraded and improved.

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