India, a leading economic power capable of launching nuclear missiles, is finding it difficult to provide sustainable drinking water and sanitation services. It took the country’s apex auditor, the Comptroller and Auditor General of India (CAG) to point its finger to the shame of slippage... Read more...
A new study covering 40 African countries shows that they are making good progress with integrated approaches to water resources management. Over 75 per cent of the member countries of the African Ministers’ Council on Water (AMCOW) are implementing national national water laws and nearly half are... Read more...
BRAC is addressing high absenteeism rates among female students through a water and sanitation programme across rural Bangladesh. Read more...
This video by BRAC relates the story of one determined teenager and her commitment to helping BRAC's Water, Sanitation and Hygiene Programme (WASH) achieve its goals. Read more...
In 2002 the Ugandan Ministry of Health compiled and distributed a handbook on data collection of Environmental Health information at household level. Although the book was distributed at district and parish level, it was not being used and many officers were not even aware of it. Read more...
“We will complement each other and create a win-win situation through this collaboration”, said IRC Director Nico Terra when signing a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with the Akvo Foundation on 13 March at the 6 th World Water Forum in Marseilles. 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...
A young woman who sparked a "sanitation revolution" in her village by forcing her husband to build a toilet in their home has been presented with a cheque for 500,000 Rupees (US$ 10,000). Anita Narre of Chichouli village of Betul district in Madhya Pradesh received the award from Union Minister of... Read more...
RiPPLE, established in 2006 as a research programme consortium, is evolving and growing. Read more...
Ministerial delegations from 40 countries have announced serious commitments to tackle the global water and sanitation crisis. Read more...
What does it cost to provide water services that last? What do we mean by a water service? Read more...
Financing water and sanitation improvements for the very poor remains a major challenge over large areas of the globe. IRC and WSUP show that effective solutions to this challenge do exist. See discussion paper: Financing water and sanitation for the poor: six key solutions (below). Which of the... Read more...
Some 60 ministers responsible for finance, water, sanitation and hygiene portfolios from over 30 developing countries will participate in the 2nd Sanitation and Water for All (SWA) High Level Meeting on 20 April 2012 at the World Bank in Washington, DC. Together with representatives from donor... Read more...
The Water Services that Last programme has published a new briefing note on self supply (By Stef Smits and Sally Sutton). It makes all the arguments that Ethiopia is responding to in developing its Self Supply Acceleration Programme. Read more...
Monitoring of water services delivery is a key factor for sustainability and water for all. This was the key theme of the monitoring and evaluation session at the 6th World Water Forum in Marseille in March 2012. It was observed that most approaches to monitoring focus on coverage measured in terms... Read more...
Arsenic affected patients from West Bengal. Photo: SOES Bone deformities due to arsenic poisoning of groundwater are common among the youth in Bengal, the Indian army has found. Less than 100 youths among the 2,000 who turned up for an army recruitment drive in February 2012, passed the physical... Read more...
By Mustapha Sesay, Sierra Leone. Water is an essential in our daily activities and a basic right for all to access it at affordable rate. It is unfortunate that as the world continues to celebrate World Water Day, most developing countries including Sierra Leone suffer from acute water shortage to... Read more...
Management Information Systems (MIS), SenseMaker and the Quality Information System (QIS) keep track of progress across nearly half of Bangladesh. Read more...
Since 2006 IRC supports a large-scale holistic programme that enables the poor in 250 sub-districts of Bangladesh to seize control of their lives Read more...
While Egypt has made good progress in urban sanitation, access to wastewater treatment in rural areas lags far behind. Read more...