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Web site for drinking water supply surveillance and monitoring in developing and transitional countries. - Organisation
ECOLEX: Gateway to Environmental Law
ECOLEX is a joint initiative of IUCN, UNEP and FAO to build capacity by providing the most comprehensive global source of environmental law worldwide. - Organisation
Water Supply and Sanitation Collaborative Council (WSSCC)
Membership organisation aiming to accelerate the achievement of sustainable water, sanitation and waste management services for all people, with special attention to the unserved poor, by enhancing co - Organisation
International Water Management Institute (IWMI)
The International Water Management Institute (IWMI) is a non-profit, scientific research organization focusing on the sustainable use of water and land resources in developing countries. - Document
Transboundary water management as a regional public good: financing development – an example from the Nile Basin
Stockholm International Water Institute, 2007This paper focuses on public goods in the context of the Nile Basin. It explores public goods as one justification for soft financing, such as grant financing that complements other sources of public and private financing, thus enhancing the financial sustainability of cooperative river-basin management and other development projects which provide important public goods.DocumentCutting edge contamination: a study of environmental pollution during the manufacture of electronic products
Greenpeace International, 2007This study highlights the environmental contamination resulting from the manufacture of electronic equipment such as computers.DocumentAbout corruption and transparency in the water and sanitation sector
IRC International Water and Sanitation Centre, 2006Corruption undermines water and sanitation services. Ultimately, it is the poor who are systematically deprived by corrupt systems. This paper provides a brief overview of the issues, approaches and information resources for the water and sanitation sector.DocumentChildren's letters to ministers
United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization, 2006There has been growing concern over the lack of information that society as a whole has with respect to our water resources. But this report shows that children and young people intuitively know the importance of water in all its complexity.DocumentPlanning and managing water resources at the river-basin level: emergence and evolution of a concept
Comprehensive Assessment of Water Management in Agriculture, IWMI, 2006This report discusses the evolution of the concept of a river basin in order to give a more politicised view of integrated water management. The paper argues that the river basin has been associated with various strands of thinking and sometimes co-opted or mobilised by particular groups to strengthen the legitimacy of their agenda.DocumentValuing wetlands: guidance for valuing the benefits derived from wetland ecosystem services
Convention on Biological Diversity, 2006This guide aims to assist Ramsar-Convention stakeholders in having economic valuation information better available for decision-making on wetlands. The report outlines a framework which should assist readers to conduct an integrated assessment of wetland ecosystem services, and it sets out five key steps in undertaking a wetland valuation assessment.Pages
