Water
- Irrigation scheduling
- C. Brouwer; C. Prins; M. Heibloem / Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, 1989
- Can river communities benefit from resettlement?
- Thayer Scudder / id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2005
- The forced resettlement of river basin communities because of dam construction is a highly controversial process. It can be justified only if plans are implemented to enable resettlers to raise their living standards. They should be i...
- Trade liberalisation in the water market: what does it mean for development?
- Overseas Development Institute, 2005
- In the context of efforts to liberalise the market in services according to the General Agreement on Trade in Services (GATS) principles, this paper assesses the consequences for the water market. Since the early 1990s development ban...
- How can the management of watersheds by Local Government Units and civil society bring about positive results?
- A.P. Contrera / Philippine Institute for Development Studies, 2004
- Water governance in the Philippines is saddled by several problems. The failure to implement laws governing the watershed approach and the absence of institutional mechanisms has seriously undermined any effort to mainstream and integ...
- What can be the role of information in preventing people from getting contaminated drinking water?
- J. Jalan; E. Somanathan / Global Development Network, 2005
- The economics literature has laid more emphasis on wealth than on information as a determinant of the willingness to pay to protect oneself from environmental and health hazards. Being informed of relevant information may help people ...
- Tsunami response: efforts to supply drinking water focused on quantity rather than quality
- T. Clasen; L. Smith / World Health Organization, 2005
- This World Health Organization report investigates the organisation of drinking water supplies following the Indian Ocean tsunami. It finds that large water tanks, mobile treatment plants and emergency storage and distribution systems...
- Ecological deterioration brings about the need for higher-quality environmental goods and services.
- I. Blam / Economic Education and Research Consortium,, Russian Federation, 2005
- The economic recession of the 1990s reduced the negative impact of human activities on the environment in Russia. However there exists a significant regional differentiation in air and water pollution. At the same time, according to s...
- Access to water: a woman’s right?
- FAO Gender; Development Service / id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2005
- Having enough water for food production is a key issue in many countries. As water becomes scarce and food requirements increase, there will be a need to produce more food using less water, to protect the quality of water and the envi...
- Radio broadcasting for better health
- Andrew Skuse / id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2005
- Radio programmes can help communities to access useful health information, promote behavioural change and widen access to health services. But what kind of information is useful? How can donors encourage community radio while assistin...
- Including disabled people in water and sanitation initiatives
- Hazel Jones; Bob Reed / id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2005
- The link between disability and poverty is clear: two thirds of the world’s disabled people live in low-income communities, with most in rural areas. Water and sanitation facilities are considered basic needs and are central to g...
- UNEP calls for wastewater emission targets to help clean up the seas
- M. Jasuja / United Nations [UN] Environment Programme, 2002
- Water supply and sanitation are topics of great importance in addressing the serious public health problems, economic losses and the degradation of coastal ecosystems. Adequate water supply and sanitation facilities also have a social...
- Community and handpump management in Malawi
- J. DeGabriele / Land Tenure Center, University of Wisconsin-Madison, 2002
- Examines ways in which the rate of hand-pump sustainability may be improved. The main conclusion is that sustainability is more likely through using good quality products, and by assuring reliable management services are provid...
- The World Bank's water strategy: reveals a fixation with privatisation?
- D. Hall; K. Bayliss; E. Lobina / Public Services International Research Unit, PSIRU, 2002
- This article discusses the World Bank's water strategy. The article is critical of the water strategy. The article suggests that the strategy's limitations stem from the organisation's misplaced faith in the private sector. The...
- Training manual on water suppy and sanitation
- F. Brikké / IRC International Water and Sanitation Centre, 2001
- Training package designed as a guide to facilitators who run courses or workshops on the management of operation and maintenance of rural water supply and sanitation services. It aims to improve the efficiency, effectiveness and susta...
- Community participation in traditional irrigation scheme rehabilitation projects in Tanzania: report of a collaborative research project
- J. Koopman; R. Kweka; M. Mboya; S.W. Wangwe / Economic and Social Research Foundation, Tanzania, 2001
- This research article looks at how participatory methods can be used in projects to rehabilitate tradtional irrigation schemes in Tanzania. The research aims at learning how government and NGOs can better support community participati...
- Emergency Water Sources: Guidelines for selection and treatment (3rd Ed).
- S. House; B. Reed / Water Engineering and Development Centre, 2004
- These guidelines have been designed to help those involved in the assessment of emergency water sources to collect relevant information in a systematic way, to use this information to select a source or sources and to determine the ap...
- Private Sector Participation in the Water and Sanitation Sector
- R. Franceys / Water Engineering and Development Centre, 1997
- This paper aims to provide an overview of the principles that should underlay private sector participation in the water and sanitation sub-sector to help inform DFID, together with other stakeholders, on the role and potential of Priv...
- Removing ropes, attaching strings : institutional arrangements to provide water
- Arun Agrawal / Indigenous Knowledge and Development Monitor - Indigenous Knowledge WorldWide, 1993
- The case of Dodopani (India) illustrates that governments often attempt sweeping technically oriented changes to improve standards of living without paying adequate attention to the political and institutional context that defines rur...
- Review of integrated approaches to river basin planning, development, and management
- Donna J. Lee; Ariel Dinar / Policy Research Working Papers, World Bank, 1995
- A review of models for river basin development, operations, management, water quantity and quality, recreational demand, countrywide planning, and multiple objective planning. Piecemeal approaches to river basin development and...
- Are stable agreements for sharing international river waters now possible?
- D. Marc Kilgour; Ariel Dinar / Policy Research Working Papers, World Bank, 1995
- Proposed here is a new scheme for allocating international river water that accounts for the stochastic nature of water supply and the dynamic nature of its demand. The suggested scheme is expected to improve the efficiency of river b...
- Trisanita
- Platform for international peer-reviewed journals focusing on sanitation published in Indonesia.
- Asia-Pacific Water Forum
- The Asia-Pacific Water Forum is an independent network which supports the integration of water resources management into socio-economic development processes.
- Watershed Organisation Trust (WOTR)
- Watershed Organisation Trust (WOTR) helps rural people in India to alleviate poverty through participatory watershed development and management.
- UNESCO-IHE Institute for Water Education (UNESCO-IHE)
- UNESCO-IHE is an international institute for water education.
- Global Water Forum
- The Global Water Forum is a knowledge sharing platform focusing on current water challenges.
- University of Malawi (UNIMA)
- Teaching and research university. Departments include: Centre For Reproductive Health (CRH) Centre For Social Research (CSR) Education Research And Training (CERT) Gender Studies Unit Language Studies Unit (CLS) Research Support Centre (RSC) Water, Sanitation, Health And Appropriate Technol...
- Healthy Reefs Initiative
- Healthy Reefs for Healthy People is a collaborative international initiative that generates user-friendly tools to measure the health of the Mesoamerican Reef Ecosystem, and delivers scientifically credible reports to improve decision-making that effectively sustain social and ecosystem well-being.
- India Water Portal
- The India Water Portal is an open, inclusive, web-based platform for sharing water management knowledge amongst practitioners and the general public. It aims to draw on the rich experience of practitioners and citizens who have worked on water issues and themes, and use the internet to disseminate this information and knowledge, to a wider audience.
- Water Alternatives (WaA)
- Free online journal on water issues
- Centre for Water, Sanitation, Health, and Appropriate Technology Development (University of Malawi) (WASHTED)
- Malawian water and environment research unit
