Accessibility, affordability, and availability of technology options are crucial for the survival of safe water businesses, says Fanny Boulloud of the Swiss Antenna Foundation. As a partner in the 'Safe Water Phase 2' programme, IRC spoke to Boulloud about business viability at a stakeholder... Read more...
An enabling environment will stimulate financiers to invest in Safe Water business. Read more...
With many of the seasonal water sources failing due to poor rains, there has been considerable reliance on a limited number of high-yielding water schemes whose ongoing performance is critical to the drought response. Read more...
Local authorities are committed to developing strategic WASH plans for the 2030 horizon. Read more...
New report by WHO and UNICEF sets the baseline for ambitious global goals. 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...
District partnerships are at the heart of the WASH Agenda for Change (WA4C). Read more...
Hand Pump Mechanics are always on call to repair water sources whenever they break down. Water source repair is largely a man's world, but who says a girl cannot fit in? Read more...
Who is taking care of the hand pump, replacing wearing parts, and keeping the service going? Read more...
Extreme temperatures, severe droughts and massive rainfall are affecting millions of people. Read more...
IRC's CEO Patrick Moriarty wishing you a wonderful 2016 Read more...
Ce document présente les principaux points et enjeux clés et des points communs qui sont ressortis des présentations et des discussions du séminaire... Read more...
In this blog on the UN-Water meeting that was held in Geneva last month, Joseph Pearce and Ton Schouten give an intriguing insight in the monitoring of the new sustainable development goal (SDG) for water. They argue that the SDGs, as they are now formulated, demand for strengthening national... Read more...
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... Read more...
2015 is the year that the Millennium Development Goals make way for the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). An important role in both development agendas is reserved for water, sanitation and hygiene issues that leave much to be desired in many countries. OneWorld dived into the world of... Read more...
Several Dutch water sector organisations have written to Minister Ploumen (Foreign Trade and Development Cooperation) about the Dutch targets for water supply. Read more...
The ASTRA decision support tool aims to help mitigate the effects of arsenic and salt contamination of water in Bangladesh. the tool stimulated lively discussion at the 37th WEDC Conference. Read more...
Within the context of the Ghana WASH Window (GWW), a delegation of 15 Ghanaian companies /NGOs/knowledge Institutions and 7 government officials were received by the Netherlands Water Partnership in the first week of October 2014 (29 sept. -3 Oct.). Read more...
"We can see that what was happening six or seven thousand years ago is still affecting what is happening in the subsurface from a salinity point of view. If you want to know what is happening now, you have to go back in time and try to understand how the groundwater system works," says Oude Essink Read more...