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How can we get more people to treat their own water?

Published on: 16/06/2016
Whether you live in the countryside or city in Ethiopia, your water may be unsafe to drink. Household water treatment is one way we can improve its quality.

Woman lifting water from well. Photo by Petterik Wiggers Panos Pictures UK

Accelerating Self-supply for more water and more jobs

Published on: 29/04/2016
The theme of World Water Day 2016 - Water and Jobs - focused on how enough and the right quality of water can change workers' lives and livelihoods, and even transform societies and economies. Linked to this theme, the National Self Supply Task Force in collaboration with IRC, MWA, JICA, Water for...

Photo: Petterik Wiggers

Self-supply Fair 2016 in Addis Ababa

Published on: 11/03/2016
My Water, My Business 2016 is an exhibition and seminar focused on Self-supply and linked to World Water Day 2016. The ambitious aim this year is to bring together different approaches to household-level provision, so going beyond domestic water supply to include household irrigation, water...

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Learning in Butajira: a capital of Self-supply

Published on: 04/11/2015
From 7-9 September 2015, IRC, the Millennium Water Alliance- Ethiopia Program (MWA-EP) and the Ministry of Water Irrigation and Energy (MoWIE) facilitated a national learning retreat on Self-supply. Participants came together in Butajira: a small town in Meskan in the Southern Nations,...

Photo Lemessa Mekonta

The more we explore, the better insight we get on self-supply potential

Published on: 28/11/2014
32 professionals and teams from five woredas in Amhara recently came together for a training workshop on Self-supply acceleration. What did we learn?

Petterik Wiggers

Sharing Self-supply experience

Published on: 16/06/2014
Catholic Relief Services (CRS) is one of the well-known international NGOs in Ethiopia, so it was a pleasure for me to see so many CRS advisers in Addis Ababa for their WASH Community of Practice meeting on 23rd May. Staff participated from across East Africa. I was there to share my experiences on...

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Family wells for family needs

Published on: 12/02/2014
A MUStRAIN case study looking at how family wells can be upgraded and improved.