Sagar is an island at the mouth of the river Ganges where it meets the Bay of Bengal. Every year in January, about half a million pilgrims visit the island to worship at the holy Ganges. The hundreds of mobile toilet units standing on the empty festival terrain during the rest of the year are... Read more...
Public-private partnerships potentially harness market incentives to improve service delivery and leverage private capital for investment costs. Read more...
This briefing note focuses on the sector wide approach (SWAp), highlighting the problems a SWAp aims to address, the benefits of a SWAp, key... Read more...
Small-scale private providers increase water supply coverage and reduce time spent on fetching water, often providing a vital service, particularly for low-income households in sub-Saharan Africa. However, in the absence of a coherent policy framework with effective tariff enforcement and water... Read more...
This paper hopes to stimulate who are interested and directly involved in environmental sanitation programmes. It is divided into case studies from... Read more...
This book is for those who are in charge of facilitating community management of water supplies. Read more...
The described project, which started in 1987, was initiated to safeguard the investments made in the Netherlands-assisted "Buba" water... Read more...
The business as usual approach for water and sewerage service provision will not allow us to serve all people of the world with safe water. That was... Read more...
The authors argue that privatisation is unlikely to be the best way to convert a malfunctioning municipal water and sewerage utility into an... Read more...
Despite the increased attention international organizations now pay to water supply and sanitation, the overall water supply situation in many... Read more...