Read IRC's vision for the coming ten years. Read more...
The Global Water Integrity Outlook was launched in The Netherlands on 15 April 2016. Read more...
In-house fault-reporting and maintenance systems work better than crowdsourcing models where users are encouraged to report faults. Read more...
Stagnant water is the ideal breeding ground for the Zika virus carrying mosquito. Read more...
This briefing note highlights the key issues surrounding Operation & Maintenance of water supply facilities, based on experiences from four districts in Uganda. Read more...
The new Sustainable Development Goals require revolutionary change, as universal access to water and sanitation by 2030 is a revolutionary idea. But what brings us closer in achieving this? Bethel Terefe of IRC Ethiopia looked for answers at the third international conference on Financing For... Read more...
A message from IRC Uganda and Ministry of Water and Environment on the occasion of World Water Day 2015 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...
In an on-going study in partnership with UNHCR, IRC is setting-up a methodology to measure the cost of providing water services to refugee population. Read more...
The record of the WASHTech December 2013-webinar on the validation, introduction and scaling up of water and sanitation technologies in a country or a given local area. Read more...
Report assessing level of compliance with regulations in eight communes of the Sahel region. Read more...
This short video, produced by the WASHTech project, illustrates the challenge of technology in WASH and how the Technology Applicability Framework (TAF) provides a systematic and participatory way of assessing and adopting technology innovation at scale, for services that last. Read more...
In 2012, when Indian Minister Jairam Ramesh remarked that “the country needs more toilets than temples”, he was stripped of his additional post as Minister of State for Drinking Water and Sanitation. Not all religious leaders object to linking temples to toilets though. On 25 September 2013, a... Read more...
The Cape Verdian government has approved the creation of two new water and sanitation bodies: the national water and sanitation council CNAS and the national water and sanitation agency ANAS. The reform of the water and sanitation sector is being supported by the US Millennium Challenge Corporation... Read more...
The World Council of Churches (WCC) has issued a statement calling on churches, governments and the United Nations to ensure universal access to water, sanitation and hygiene as part of the post-2015 development agenda. The Church is seen to have a vital role in advocating for the full realisation... Read more...
The BRAC WASH II research call for low-cost water technologies was won by PRACTICA Foundation, based in The Netherlands. Their project title is ASTRA, Aiding Sustainable Water Technology Realization in Arsenic and Salinity contaminated Areas of Bangladesh. Read more...
Dr. Peter Morgan has been named the 2013 Stockholm Water Prize Laureate for his lifelong dedication to improving sanitation and water technologies for the poor. H.M. King Carl XVI Gustaf of Sweden will present the prize to Dr. Morgan at a Royal Award Ceremony during the 2013 World Water Week in... Read more...
The Coca-Cola Africa Foundation (TCCAF) and its partners have launched the Replenish Africa Initiative's (RAIN) Multiple Use Water Improvements project in Ethiopia. This one-year project will benefit 73,400 rural citizens, including 22,000 school children living in seven rural woredas (districts)... Read more...
This portal was launched in October 2011 by US Foundation Center as collaborative platform for philanthropic foundations funding water, sanitation and hygiene projects around the world. Read more...
