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  Running pure: the importance of forest protected areas to drinking water

  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.
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  Wishing well: making drinking water projects more gender sensitive?

  id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2002

  Women bear most of the burden of collecting, protecting, maintaining and storing water. In many developing countries, inadequate water supply is a major problem. In the 1980s, women’s roles in water management were partially recognised and their participation in water projects was promoted to a certain extent.
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  Drinking problem: the extent of arsenic in groundwaters

  id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2002

  Most natural waters have low concentrations of arsenic but high concentrations can occur under a range of conditions. Chronic ingestion of arsenic has been associated with health conditions such as skin disorders, cancers such as bladder, lung and skin cancer and cardiovascular diseases. Which water sources are at most risk of arsenic contamination?
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  Water and the least developed countries

  International Institute for Environment and Development, 2003

  This paper begins by providing background information on least developed countries (LDCs) which are the world's 49 poorest, and comparing them with other developing countries.
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  Global water outlook to 2025: averting an impending crisis

  International Food Policy Research Institute, 2002

  IFPRI and IWMI's report uses computer modeling to project water demand and availability through to 2025 and predicts the likely impact of changes in water policy and investment, making specific recommendations for specific locations around the globe.The report argues that if current water policies continue, farmers will find it difficult to meet the world’s food needs.
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  Improving community based management of boreholes: a case study from Malawi

  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 provided by the users. The latter should be backed up by a reliable spares supply chain as well as by locally available mechanics trained in advanced repairs.
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  Operation and maintenance of rural water supply and sanitation systems: a training package for managers and planners

  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 sustainability of water supply and sanitation services by highlighting the importance of community participation with the appropriate gender balance.
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  Review of integrated approaches to river basin planning, development, and management

  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 management may not fully recognize the interactions and interdependencies among components of a river basin system.
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  Removing ropes, attaching strings : institutional arrangements to provide water

  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 rural power dynamics, interactions and realities.
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  Emergency Water Sources: Guidelines for selection and treatment (3rd Ed).

  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 appropiate level of treatment required to make the water suitable for drinking.

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