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The business of collecting fecal sludge in four Latin American cities

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The case studies were conducted in four cities located in countries where coverage with sanitary sewerage services is below the regional average: Santa Cruz (Bolivia), Guatemala City (Guatemala), Tegucigalpa (Honduras), and Managua (Nicaragua).The present report spotlights the major challenges and the opportunities that lie ahead in fecal sludge management and summarizes the findings from four case studies that describe the current and potential market for sludge removal, collection, and more...

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D C on May 17, 2012

ELLA GUIDE: Addressing the Urban Challenge in Integral and Inclusive Ways

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The world’s urban population multiplied ten-fold during the 20th century. Since Latin America has an advanced urban transition, its initiatives offer interesting lessons learned to help create inclusive, environmentally sustainable and integrated cities in other developing countries.

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Mark Turner on May 16, 2012

Measuring Water use in a Green Economy

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Water is an essential resource for virtually all aspects of human enterprise, from agriculture via urbanization to energy and industrial production. Equally, the many uses for water create pressures on the natural systems. This report analyses the different ways for quantifying and accounting for water flows and productivity within the economy (including environmental needs). Based on data from the literature, the report provides the current state of knowledge of the different indicators and more...

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Sonia Hossain on May 14, 2012

Africa wide water, sanitation and hygiene technology review

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The Water, Sanitation and Hygiene Technologies (WASHTech) is a three-year action research initiative that aims to facilitate cost-effective investments in technologies for sustainable water, sanitation and hygiene services (WASH). The aim of the review is to understand how technologies have been developed, how they were introduced, whether they have gone to scale and to start to explore the reasons why they were successful or not. The review is focused on technologies used in Africa in the more...

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Sonia Hossain on May 09, 2012

Equity and Inclusion in Sanitation and Hygiene in Africa

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In 2008, 59% of the population in Africa lacked access to improved sanitation facilities with only 9 of the 54 African countries on track to meet the Millennium Development Goals (MDG) Sanitation target. The collaborative process of desk review, consultations and analysis behind this paper reinforces what we already know- that the ‖excluded‖, are not only people who suffer from ‖asset poverty, but also those who are shut out for social reasons. The key question: Is it possible at scale? – to more...

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Sonia Hossain on May 09, 2012

Reinvent the Toilet Challenge (Round 2)

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Open Date: April 23, 2012Proposals Due: May 10, 2012The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation announces the second round of its Reinvent the Toilet Challenge designed to prototype a means of dealing effectively and cost-efficiently with human waste for the 2 billion people on earth who currently lack access to safe and affordable sanitation.Because most of the world's poorest people rely directly on agriculture, we support efforts to help small farmers improve crop production and market access. more...

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D C on April 30, 2012

Output-based Aid for Sustainable Sanitation

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Results-based financing (RBF) has emerged as an important way of financing public services in general and basic services in particular. One type of RBF known as output-based aid (OBA) tends to be used to target subsidies for poor customers by providing service providers the incentives to serve the areas of greatest need. Unfortunately, experience with OBA in sanitation is limited. One of the motivation for this paper is to consider why this is the case.The objective of this study is to more...

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D C on April 26, 2012

Sanitation and Hygiene Promotion for the Urban Poor

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In March 2011, IRC International Water and Sanitation Center in collaboration with the Rwandan Ministry of Health convened over 60 practitioners and researchers from East Africa in a workshop that discussed the progress and challenges faced by the sector in the promotion of effective pro-poor urban sanitation and hygiene. This booklet presents key recommendations that advance pro-poor urban sanitation and hygiene activities based on the six issues collectively identified as priority areas- more...

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Sonia Hossain on May 09, 2012

Good Practices in realising the rights to water and sanitation

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We are living in a world where close to one billion people do not have access to improved water sources, and 2.6 billion people do not use improved sanitation facilities. For those who have access to sanitation, in much of the world, wastewater treatment, and disposal and / or reuse of domestic or sanitation wastewater is not considered, with wastewater released back into water bodies or into the ground without treatment. This has an extremely negative impact on the environment, on the quality more...

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D C on April 24, 2012

The Child Health Implications of Privatizing Africa's Urban Water Supply

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Can private sector participation (PSP) in the urban piped water sector improve child health? Allowing the private sector to provide basic infrastructure such as water is politically controversial, with some arguing that the private sector is more efficient and will improve access and quality, and others arguing that they will suffer. The author uses child-level data from 39 African countries during 1986-2010 to show that the introduction of PSP in the water sector decreases diarrhea among more...

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Sonia Hossain on May 08, 2012

The Politics of Water Security between Afghanistan and Iran

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Key Points:Increasing development and water consumption in upstream Afghanistan negatively affects water supply to Iran, thereby exacerbating latent tensions between the two countries.Iran perceives the construction of hydroelectric dams on the Afghan side of the basins as a direct security threat.There is no active agreement between Iran and Afghanistan over the management of shared water resources in the Helmand and Harirod-Murghab river basins.It is unlikely these points of friction will be more...

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Moushumi Biswas on March 04, 2012

GEF action on water, environment and sustainable livelihoods

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In these times of global change and multiple stresses on our rivers, lake, aquifers, and oceans, the GEF has responded to an overwhelming number of country requests for help in actions to address the global water crisis. Support has not only come from the International Waters focal area but also from GEF’s other focal areas which, as illustrated by these stories, also contribute to water, and consequently to food and energy security by incorporating water considerations into the projects and more...

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D C on April 05, 2012

Quantitative maps of groundwater resources in Africa

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New research funded by UK aid has uncovered huge stores of groundwater in Africa – a vital resource that could give millions of people across the continent access to safe drinking water.Across Africa over 300 million people don't have access to safe drinking water. But today's findings show the volume of water available underground is 100 times the amount found on the surface – water which could be tapped to meet the need.

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Moushumi Biswas on April 22, 2012

Improving water use in rainfed agriculture

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The majority of agricultural production systems in the GMS receive all or most of their water from rainfall, and thus are vulnerable to climate variability. There is great potential for improving productivity, sustainability and resilience in these systems, particularly by better control and use of water resources. All national governments consider expanding their irrigation to be an important priority. Irrigated areas are increasing but economic and physical constraints prevent full more...

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Moushumi Biswas on April 30, 2012

UN-Water Sanitation and Drinking Water Report-2012

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This 2012 UN-Water GLAAS provides further reason for vigilance resources are neither targeted nor apparently sufficient to sustain routine operation and maintenance of water and sanitation services. Thus, there is a serious risk of slipping backwards on gains already made. The analysis emerging from UN-Water GLAAS also helps to identify the reasons behind the disparities in access to sanitation and drinking-water among different regions, communities and income groups.

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Moushumi Biswas on April 15, 2012

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