When realising safe sanitation avoid making pit emptying an afterthought. Read more...
The challenges of developing an 'Indian' protocol to monitor COVID-19 in sewage. Read more...
Report of a webinar organised by the SuSanA India chapter, WaterAid India, IRC and the India Sanitation Coalition. Read more...
Organised by the SuSanA India Chapter, IRC, India Sanitation Coalition and WaterAid. Read more...
Examples of participatory assessment of baseline conditions and monitoring of progress come from Nepal and Mozambique, among others. They give community organisations and households valuable insights on how they are doing and what improvement is still needed. Read more...
Practical tools for finance mechanisms feature in a new guide. Read more...
The capital city of Rwanda has turned a delay in funding for new centralised sewerage system into an opportunity. It has revised its plans so that more areas will get connected Read more...
Before you is the first version of the Low-Cost Sanitation Package for Non-Sewered Private Toilets, SanPack for short. This collection of e-documents is the reorganized set up of papers, materials and tools that IRC and its partners have developed on non-sewered household toilets from the mid-1980s... Read more...
A US-Ghanaian team has been awarded US$ 1.5 million from the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation to develop a biorefinery that will convert fecal sludge to biodiesel and methane. Read more...
The World Bank has approved a US$ 200 million loan to support Egypt’s Second Integrated Sanitation and Sewerage Infrastructure Project (ISSIP 2). The project will provide mproved sanitation and sewerage services to about 1.2 million people in 19 village clusters in the Governorates of Menoufia,... Read more...
The Delhi Jal Board (city water board) has approved levying sewerage development charges on those premises which do not have a DJB water connection, or have a cut-off connection, but discharge sewage into its sewer system. The monthly levy will be in the range of 150 to 2,500 Indian rupees [US$ 3... 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...