Governments have to stimulate Safe Water Businesses
Published on: 04/10/2017
An enabling environment will stimulate financiers to invest in Safe Water business.
Water quality is an underestimated problem in Mali
Published on: 11/04/2017
The human right to water and water quality are two focus areas for Watershed in Mali says Mrs Traoré Afou Chantal Bengaly in an interview.
Water and Society 2017
Published on: 02/12/2016
4th International Conference on Water & Society, 5 - 7 June 2017, Seville, Spain. The Water and Society Conference is to be reconvened in 2017 following the success of the previous meetings, the first of which was held in Las Vegas in 2011, followed by a meeting in 2013 in the New Forest, UK,...
The data revolution into practice
Published on: 12/10/2016
Akvo's lunch lecture at the Dutch Ministry of Foreign Affairs.
Carbon finance: unlocking investments for safe water?
Published on: 15/09/2016
On the global carbon market big companies like Coca-Cola reduce their carbon footprint by investing in safe water projects that reduce CO2 emissions.
Scaling up safe water – what can we learn from local businesses?
Published on: 17/03/2016
In the Safe Water II programme (2015-2018) we map tools and approaches that local businesses in household water treatment products use to start and scale up their business.
Wetlands International commits to reduce water scarcity by restoring wetlands
Published on: 29/09/2015
With 20 percent of the world's GDP and 36 percent of the global population located in severely water stressed areas, the growing demand and competition for freshwater will be one of the biggest global challenges we face. At the Clinton Global Initiative (CGI) Annual Meeting 2015, Wetlands...
Analyse de la qualité de l'eau délivrée et consommée par les ménages du Sahel
Ce rapport résume les principaux constats d'une étude exhaustive sur la qualité de l'eau consommée dans les communes d'Aribinda et de Gorgadji dans...
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...
Que faire quand l'acces a l'eau potable ne garantit pas son usage par les menages?
Published on: 06/02/2015
La corrélation directe entre l’accès à l’eau potable et le niveau de santé, de nutrition et autres indicateurs de développement est aujourd’hui largement reconnue. Sur cette base, le secteur conclut souvent qu’il est nécessaire d’allouer davantage d’investissements aux infrastructures (en milieu...
SWIBANGLA : managing salt water intrusion impacts in coastal groundwater systems of Bangladesh : final report
The focus is on salt water intrusion in coastal groundwater systems, as groundwater is the main resource of drinking water and irrigation water for...
The different world water crisis
Published on: 30/01/2015
Unlike droughts, floods and oil spills, non-functioning water and sanitation systems seldom make the headlines, even though water crises top the list of global risks.
La question de la qualité de l’eau
Published on: 21/11/2014
L'une des principales conditions pour la fourniture de services d'eau potable est que le fournisseur de service doit être en mesure de garantir que l'eau ne présente pas de risque pour la consommation. Mais qu'est-ce qu'on doit faire si on habite dans une région où ces services ne sont pas à portée...
Questioning quality
Published on: 21/11/2014
One of the main conditions for providing potable water services is that the service provider must be able to guarantee that the water is safe for consumption. But what happens when you live in an area where such services are not within reach? Can you be sure that the water that is available is safe...
WASH services critical for refugees worldwide
Published on: 15/07/2014
Clean water, sanitation and hygiene are of critical importance for the people living in camps, but they don't come cheap and many refugees are not going anywhere soon.
The modelling and monitoring workshops of SWIBANGLA
Published on: 26/06/2014
The Managing Saltwater Intrusion Impacts in Bangladesh (SWIBANGLA) applied research project held two workshops in June 2014: one on groundwater modelling and one on groundwater quality monitoring.
Quality time
Published on: 20/05/2014
A study on whether water sources classified as "improved" are indeed safe triggered debate on the level of effort that needs to go into water quality monitoring and into measures to improve water quality
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.
Service delivery indicators and monitoring to improve sustainability of rural water supplies : building blocks for sustainability
What makes a good monitoring system? They feed into local level planning and decision-making, are realistically designed with existing resource...
Help a local journalist examine the sustainability of a water and sanitation project in Benin
Published on: 24/07/2012
Journalist Pacôme Tomètissi wants to revisit the fishing communities of Lake Nokoué in Benin to examine the sustainability of a 5 million euro EU-funded water, sanitation and hygiene (WASH) project.
Tuvalu: composting toilets help conserve water and boost livelihoods in Pacific islands
Published on: 07/05/2012
A new film shows how composting toilets are helping to address the serious water issues facing Tuvalu. The tiny Pacific island nation of just 10,500 inhabitants recently experienced a devastating drought. Septic tank systems are polluting the groundwater and destroying …
Burkina Faso: Transporting and storing water: sources for contamination?
Published on: 02/08/2011
The International Institute for Water and Environmental Engineering (2iE) at UNICEF’s request conducted a study in Burkina Faso on analysing microbiology and physic-chemical quality of the water along its supply chain (welling, transport, storage).This was coupled with a study on behavioural...
Andhra Pradesh: Breaking the rules or mending the leaks
Published on: 04/05/2011
A reality case from Janagoan town in Andhra Pradesh in India. Janagoan is 79 kilometres from Hyderabad and 53 from the main town in Warangal district.