Water and Sanitation Newsletter
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Water, Sanitation, and Health
History of W&S Services
Organizations
- Global Hydrology Resource Center
- Global International Waters Assessment
- Global Water Partnership
- InterWater
- The World’s Water
- Water Environment Federation
- Water Quality Association
- World Water Council
- United Nations Global Environment Monitoring System (GEMS) Water Programme
- Water Research Commission South Africa
- ARS Water Database
- California Department of Water Resources
- EPA’s Office of Wetlands, Oceans, and Watersheds
- Texas WaterNet
- Planning and Policy Topics (Archived page from Wayback Machine)
- Services to the Poor
Demand Responsive Planning
- Large Scale Rural Water and Sanitation Projects (PDF)
- Making Rural Water Supply Sustainable (PDF)
- Equity and Demand Responsive Approaches by IRC
- The Demand Responsive Approach: What are the Benefits?
Financing and Pricing Issues
Gender Issues
- Woman, Water and Sanitation abstracts (IRC)
- “Diverting the Flow: A Resource Guide to Gender, Rights, and Water Privatization.”
- Gender and Water Alliance
Institutions
- Institutional Development (GARNET)
- Private Provision of Water and Sanitation (WB)
- Integrated Water Resources Management (WB)
- Towards Integrated Water Resources Management (IRC) (PDF - 1.8MB)
Technologies
- On-Plot Sanitation in Low-Income Urban Communities (PDF)
Urban Water Supply
- Improving Urban Service in Nairobi (WB)
- Mega Slums: The Coming Sanitary Crisis
- On-Plot Sanitation in Low-Income Urban Communities (DFID) (PDF)
- Sewerage and Sanitation: Jakarta and Manila (WB)
- Sanitation Service for the Urban Poor in Jamaica (case study) (PDF)
- Groundwater: Information on Sources of Groundwater, Contamination, etc.
Privatization
Human Right to Water
Millenium Development Goals
Case Studies
- UNICEF Case Studies in Environmental Sanitation (PDF)
- Sewerage and Sanitation: Jakarta and Manila (World Bank)
- Improving Urban Services in Nairobi (World Bank)
- World Bank’s Rapid Response Unit
The site hosts studies of water resource markets, discussing issues of inter-sectoral trading and integrated water resource management. Reviews of experience point to potential benefits and practical difficulties of such systems.
Facts and Figures
- Access to Sanitation Services (UNICEF)
- Comprehensive Assessment of the Freshwater Resources of the World
- UNEP’s Vital Water Graphics: Info on Quantity and Quality of Available Water
- Water in Schools
- World Bank Urban and City Management
The WBI’s Urban and City Management Program aims to build institutional capacity of urban authorities to deal with their roles as managers, regulators and financiers of urban services.
