Water
- Identifying good practice in Indian water management institutions
- International Water Management Institute, 2003
- This briefing argues that many Indian water management institutions are failing to live up to their original promise, failing to deliver high-value thinking, insights or perspectives. It demonstrates that by allowing these institution...
- How water sources can provide an incentive for environmental protection
- N. Dudley; S. Stolton / WWF-World Wide Fund For Nature, 2003
- This report presents arguments for the potential role of protected areas in helping to maintain water supply to major cities. It demonstrates that water provides a powerful argument for protection. Through payment for environmental se...
- Developments in water privatisation in South and Central America
- D. Hall; E. Lobina / Public Services International Research Unit, PSIRU, 2002
- This report sets out the main developments and current situation in respect of water privatisation and restructuring in Latin America as at June 2002. It assesses the multinationals active in Latin America; issues of public sector wat...
- Water supply and demand: how to meet the need for ever scarcer water supplies
- David Watts / id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2002
- Why is water a rapidly diminishing resource in many parts of the world? How do social and economic processes effect water supplies? What is the relationship between environmental factors and socio-economic processes? Research from the...
- Maximising the access of disabled impoverished people to clean water
- H. Jones; K.J. Parker; R. Reed / Water Engineering and Development Centre, 2002
- This paper addresses the issue of aids to assist physically disabled people and their families living in low-income communities, to maximise their access to and use of the domestic water cycle. The literature review aims to establish ...
- Politics and provision On-the-ground realities of water and sanitation development
- Lyla Mehta; Alan Nicol / id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2002
- Addressing the challenge of water and sanitation under-provision requires a subtle understanding of several factors: the nature of the resource, the wider poverty environments in which millions of people live and the politics within w...
- Water and sanitation goals: is progress in the pipeline?
- Richard Jolly / id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2002
- In the 1980s, the world set the goal of water and sanitation for all by the end of the decade. By contrast, the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) are only to halve the proportions without affordable access to safe water and adequate...
- Urban sanitation: are the poor being heard?
- Deepa Joshi; Ben Fawcett / id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2002
- The international commitment to provide basic services for all has yet to be achieved for a high percentage of the urban poor. Residents of densely crowded settlements endure the indignity, shame and sickness that lack of sanitation p...
- Water Delivery’s poor cousins: Sanitation and Hygiene in Urban Environments
- Virginia Roaf; Heike Gloeckner / id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2002
- The development and delivery of sanitation services and hygiene promotion remain poor cousins to water supply, being neither ‘clean’ nor as politically useful as the delivery of water. However, they are as important in reduc...
- From subsidy to sustainability: cost recovery challenges in urban water supply
- Kristin Komives; Linda Stalker-Prokopy / id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2002
- Although water is increasingly seen as an economic good, the issue of cost recovery for water supply and sanitation is far from straightforward. Poor households are in some places reluctant or unable to pay for networked services whil...
- Developing Small Dams and Social Capital in Yemen: Local Responses to External Assistance
- D.L. Vermillion / International Association for the Study of Common Property, 2000
- This paper examines six cases of small dam development along small seasonal rivers (wadi) in the rugged mountainous province of Al-Mahweet in north central Yemen. Development of small dams is a current priority of the Governmen...
- Solutions for a Water-Short World
- Center for Communication Programs, Johns Hopkins University, 1998
- As populations grow and water use per person rises, demand for freshwater is soaring. Yet the supply of freshwater is finite and threatened by pollution. To avoid a crisis, many countries must conserve water, pollute less, manage supp...
- Water supply and sanitation for developing countries: Directories of UK-based research (Garnet)
- Global Applied Research Network in Water Supply and Sanitation, 1999
- A livelihoods review of projects in Orissa and Andhra Pradesh, India
- C. Turton / Overseas Development Institute, 2000
- Reviews the design of two new DFID projects in Orissa and Andhra Pradesh, India. The projects aim to contribute to the Government of India’s efforts to eliminate poverty through support to its watershed development programme. Th...
- 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
