Lessons from research in the REACH programme in Ethiopia about securing water for livelihoods and household use with special attention to gender. Read more...
Why is self-supply important and what can WASH professionals, governments, academia, funders and implementers do to help self-supply reach its... Read more...
As we (re)discover groundwater this World Water Day, let's not just look under our feet and think about the resource that lies down there. Read more...
When realising safe sanitation avoid making pit emptying an afterthought. Read more...
Ghana joins World Water Day with several celebrations. Read more...
A framework is developed incorporating public participation as a mandatory clause in water supply projects. Read more...
Perceived poor performance of hand pumped boreholes has been a persistent problem in Africa Read more...
Under severe conditions of water scarcity, it is vital to keep motorised boreholes pumping across Ethiopia's Somali region. Read more...
This practical manual brings together a wide range of techniques required to develop groundwater for community water supplies. Read more...
This paper describes how the ASTRA tool can help identify potentially appropriate technical solutions fro the delivery of arsenic and saline-free... Read more...
What is the best technical solution to deal with arsenic-polluted and saline water in Bangladesh? When is it better to treat the water or to choose... Read more...
Presentation by Dr V. Kurian Baby, country director for India, at the India WASH Summit in New Delhi. 2-15 February 2015. Read more...
The focus is on salt water intrusion in coastal groundwater systems, as groundwater is the main resource of drinking water and irrigation water for... Read more...
In Chennai, India, stakeholders support the establishment of an independent state groundwater authority to secure sustainable water supply. Read more...
Sustainable groundwater use is more likely in Indian villages if farmers, other village community members and NGOs work together with researchers and... Read more...
"We can see that what was happening six or seven thousand years ago is still affecting what is happening in the subsurface from a salinity point of view. If you want to know what is happening now, you have to go back in time and try to understand how the groundwater system works," says Oude Essink Read more...
The Managing Saltwater Intrusion Impacts in Bangladesh (SWIBANGLA) applied research project held two workshops in June 2014: one on groundwater modelling and one on groundwater quality monitoring. Read more...
A report on Fahad Khan Khadim's multifaceted visit from Bangladesh to The Netherlands. Read more...