IRC Ghana joins the sector minister and partners to unveil the revised national water policy. Read more...
WHO launches guidelines for drinking-water quality and sanitary inspection Read more...
A climate resilient WASH learning platform has been established in Ziway-Shalla sub-basin in Ethiopia Read more...
Making the case for affordable safe drinking water in Kabarole, Uganda Read more...
Bongo is one of the driest regions in Ghana. The district is in a rocky zone where 103,000 people live in small towns and rural communities. The groundwater in the region has a high fluoride contents which is bad for teeth and bones. In 2015, the District Assembly started to replace the wells by... Read more...
A networking event on 9 October 2018 for water and environmental professionals in The Hague. Read more...
The main purpose of this report is to reflect with key stakeholders involved in trying to scale up HWTS in Ghana (as part of the Safe Water Phase II) on what happened. Read more...
In six videos, relevant topics on running a safe water business are discussed. Read more...
The complicated landscape of safe drinking water for households is discussed in this podcast. Read more...
During a stakeholder workshop in Nepal in September 2017, IRC spoke with Anisha Karn, Marketing Manager of SmartPaani, a Nepalese private water company, about business viability, social marketing and innovation in Nepal. Read more...
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. Read more...
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... Read more...
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. Read more...
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. Read more...
Working with the Ethiopian government and partners to deliver universal access to WASH services. Read more...
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. Read more...
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 … Read more...
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... Read more...
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. Read more...
The Drakenstein Local Municipality in Western Cape, South Africa, is using a new software system to get a better insight into assets management and the operation and maintenance status of six wastewater treatment plants serving 250,000 people. Read more...