Water
- Men first: inheritance rights and women in rural China
- Heather Xiaoquan Zhang / id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2005
- For women in rural China, inheritance rights are often limited by traditional customs which give greater benefits to men. Although this is being challenged by new laws that recognise women’s legal rights, increased access for wom...
- Synergies between environmental policies and the development of comprehensive environmental projects
- A. V. R. Blanco / Centre for Development Cooperation Services, Free University, Amsterdam, 2004
- This report presents an analysis of the synergies between environmental policies and the development of comprehensive environmental projects. More specifically, the report aims to comprehend how climate change, sustainable land use, b...
- Domestic water situation in Kenya
- M. Katui-Katua / International Institute for Environment and Development, 2004
- This paper discusses changes in domestic water use over three decades in twelve rural and urban sites in Kenya. The rural and urban sites reflect the diversity of environments, living conditions and water service levels found througho...
- Would water privatisation have been a better option than partial reforms?
- L. Alcázar; L.C. Xu; A.M. Zuluaga / Grupo de Analisis para el Desarrollo, Peru, 2002
- Following severe economic crisis in 1989-90, Peru embarked on a programme of market-oriented structural reforms which included a proposal to privatise the operation of Lima’s water and sewerage utility. Despite severe problems in...
- Combating poverty through access to safe water supply and sanitation facilities
- Eldis Document Store, 2003
- This paper reports on a United Nations conference held in Norway, November 2003, in support of the 12th session of the Commission for Sustainable Development. The conference focused on the plight of the world’s poorest, with part...
- The implementation of a rural water supply schemes in Uganda
- Yme, 2004
- This short paper reports on a rural water supply pilot project in Uganda, initiated by YME (a Norwegian NGO) in conjunction with the Uganda Wildlife Authorities (UWA). The paper presents a case study of Katunguru, a village in the Que...
- The global financing challenge facing environmental water resource management
- UNEP World Conservation Monitoring Centre, 2004
- This paper addresses the global financing challenge facing environmental water resource management with respect to the water supply and sanitation targets agreed upon as it relates to the Millennium Development Goal (MDG) and the Worl...
- Private sector participation in water supply: too fast, too soon?
- Eric Gutierrez / id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2002
- Is water privatisation being over-promoted? Is private sector participation (PSP) in its current forms likely to promote the achievement of the Millennium Development Goals to provide the poor with reliable, affordable and sustainable...
- Tapping into the problem: water shortages in Nigeria
- Miklas Scholz / id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2002
- Do people living in Nigerian villages have clean drinking water? Do they have enough water to meet their daily hygiene requirements? The University of Edinburgh, UK, together with the Federal Polytechnic in Bauchi, Nigeria...
- Water rights in Sri Lanka
- South Asia Alliance for Poverty Alleviation, 2003
- This issue of the SAAPE newsletter covers water privatisation in South Asia. The articles covered include: water privatisation and people’s sruggle to protect common water rights in Sri Lanka: argues that the proce...
- Inspections and emissions in India : puzzling survey evidence on industrial water pollution
- Sheoli Pargal; Muthukumara Mani; Mainul Huq / Policy Research Working Papers, World Bank, 1997
- In a sample of industrial plants in India, direct community pressure on plants does not appear to play a major role in reducing emissions. Nor do formal inspections, possibly because of the low probability of enforcement and the low p...
- DFID guidance manual on water supply and sanitation programmes
- Water and Environmental Health at London and Loughborough, 1998
- The Department for International Development (DFID) commissioned this Guidance Manual toassist staff and partners to develop effective and sustainable water supply and sanitation programmes. The Manual comprises three chapters and app...
- Policy recommendations and strategies for improving the Tanzanian irrigation sector
- Economic and Social Research Foundation, Tanzania, 1997
- This article addresses the importance on increasing the acreage of land under irrigation within Tanzania, in order to increase food output, poverty reduction and exports.Policy recommendations within the irrigation sub-sector: ...
- Improving the operation of urban water supply systems in India: a discussion of unaccounted for water
- US Agency for International Development, 2000
- Project report from the Indo-US FIRE(D) project which aims to institutionalise the delivery of commercially viable urban infrastructure and services at the state, regional and national levels. Looks at the problem of unaccounted for w...
- How does a political ecology perspective enrich understandings of water management
- B. Derman; A. Ferguson / Development Experience Clearinghouse, USAID, 2000
- This article explores water reforms in Southern Africa in general and in Zimbabwe in particular. The article argues that water reform constitutes a relevant site to examine the strengths and weaknesses of political ecology. The...
- Are Bangkok residents willing to pay extra money in order to increase the water quality of the Chao Phraya river?
- C. Tapvong; J. Kruavan / IDRC Economy and Environment Program for Southeast Asia, 2000
- To assess how much the cleanliness of the Chao Phraya river is worth to the residents of Bangkok, this study estimates the willingness of Bangkok residents to pay for improved water quality by conducting a contingent v...
- Getting the private sector involved in water: what to do in the poorest of countries (WB)
- Private Sector Development Department, World Bank, 1999
- Bending the Rules: Discretionary Pollution Control in China
- S. Dasgupta; H. Mainul; D. Wheeler / Policy Research Working Papers, World Bank, 1999
- In China, environmental regulators play by the rules, but often bend them in ways that reflect important environmental and social concerns. Regulators give little or no slack to heavy dischargers. Old factories pay more, state owned f...
- Should Peru have rejected the privatisation of their water and sanitation utility in Lima?
- L. Alcázar; L. Colin Xu; A.M. Zuluaga / Policy Research Working Papers, World Bank, 2000
- This article deals with various issues surrounding the privatization of the the Water and Sanitation Utility of Lima, Peru. Lima's water system was in near-crisis, but this was not enough to bring about radical change. Partial reforms...
- Hitosa Water Supply Project, Ethiopia
- T. Silkin / Wateraid, 1997
- Describes a large scale community-managed gravity water supply scheme in Ethiopia
- 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
