Water
- Water and sanitation for all: the need to go beyond numbers and beyond the MDGs.
- Achieving the Millennium Development Goals for water and sanitation is clearly a priority in many UN agencies, as reflected in the number of agencies and annual reports on the topic. However, to what extent should these assessments and indicators serve as a basis for donor policies and priorities? While not wanting to critique these efforts and indicators, IDS fellows - Jeremy Allouch and Lyla Mehta argue how enhancing water and sanitation is severely restricted by the definition given by the Millennium Development Goals and its impact on indicators. Official indicators leave out a huge range of local initiatives and alternative ways of improving water and sanitation that fall outside the MDGs.
Latest Additions
- Does land cover affect rainfall patterns in southern Africa?
- ( C.J.R. Williams;D.R. Kniveton / , 2011)
- The paper presents an investigation on the influence of land cover changes on rainfall variability, and in particular daily rainfall extremes in southern Africa. It examines the effect of increasing t...
- Challenges for the Nile Basin region
- ( T. Oestigaard (ed) / Nile Basin Research Programme, University of Bergen , 2010)
- The Nile Basin Research Programme (NBRP), as a strategic, multidisciplinary programme for research and higher education on topics related to the Nile Basin, has had the overall aim to enhance and prom...
- Strengthen glacial research and modeling of glaciers to avoid floods and droughts
- ( B. P. Kaltenborn (ed);C. Nellemann (ed);I. I. Vistnes (ed) / Arendal Maps & Graphics Library, UNEP/GRID , 2010)
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Climate change is causing significant mass loss of glaciers in high mountains worldwide. This report calls for accelerating research, monitoring and modeling of glaciers, snow and their role in wat...
- Adaptation of water resource management to climate change in Africa
- ( J. Church (ed) / UK Parliament , 2011)
- The continent of Africa is one of the most vulnerable regions to climate change, mostly through the medium of water. The continent has always had unpredictable rainfall and climate patterns which will...
- African cities must restore ecosystems, reduce water consumption and recycle waste water
- ( C. Mafuta (ed);R.K. Formo (ed);C. Nellemann (ed) / Arendal Maps & Graphics Library, UNEP/GRID , 2011)
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In light of its rapid urban growth, Africa is likely to experience some of the most severe impacts of climate change – particularly when it comes to water and food security, which places...
- A need for improved understanding of hill furrow irrigation systems in Kilimanjaro (Tanzania)
- ( M. Tagseth / Norwegian University of Science and Technology , 2011)
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The main objective of this thesis is to contribute knowledge of water management and water use in hill furrow irrigation in Kilimanjaro region in Tanzania. The paper analyses the waters of the regi...
- Technology have an equity effect on water access
- ( E.L.K. Hazell / School of Development Studies, University of Kwazulu-Natal, Durban, South Africa , 2010)
- Access to sufficient water to meet basic needs has been identified as a critical development issue and a human right. This study set out to investigate the dynamic relationship between gender, water a...
- Successful Vietnamese programme for rural water supply relied on policy dialogue and government leadership
- ( Australian Agency for International Development , 2011)
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National Target Program 2 (NTP2) for rural water supply and sanitation is a part of the Vietnamese government’s national strategy to help poor and vulnerable households. This paper reviews th...
- How can the international community help Pakistan to overcome its water crisis?
- ( M. Kugelman / Norwegian Peacebuilding Centre , 2010)
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Pakistan faces a multidimensional water crisis that claims hundreds of thousands of lives every year. This paper examines the potentials for the international community to help Pakistan to overcome...
- The negative long-term impact of industrial waste
- ( M.H. Rashid;U. Saika;K.M.S. Huda / Bangladesh Online Research Network , 2010)
- There has been a remarkable and refreshing interest in the urban environment over the past few years. Advanced nations are economically developed and no doubt developing countries are more concerned a...
