IRC Associate
Freelance writer, journalist, editor, consultant and trainer. Peter researches, writes and edits mainly on water and sanitation, health and development. He is has been acting as consultant to the BRAC WASH project in Bangladesh supporting their communications work and providing training, and was for five years consultant to IRC's WASHCost project. Over the past years, Peter has been supporting the IRC Ghana team in communicating their district based work.
This book, the first thematic update of the State of the environment in Southern Africa, published in 1994, looks at both freshwater and marine... Read more...
This publication provides decision makers and an interested public in Sweden, as well as concerned people in southern Africa (Angola, Botswana,... Read more...
L'eau en même temps qu'elle est source de vie peut devenir source de maladies. L'insalubrité pose de nombreux problèmes de santé publique. Read more...
Water requirements to the year 2025 at regional and national levels are examined in order to assess emerging problems of stress on freshwater... Read more...
This paper begins with the idea that water is an economic resource, characterized by scarcity, and goes on to explore the many different economic... Read more...
The scarcity of freshwater is now an important issue in many parts of the world. Read more...
Le péril fécal est une réalité qui défraie la chronique dans les pays en développement. Cela s'explique par le faite que les systèmes d'adduction d'... Read more...
Domestic unavailability of water supply in South Africa often leads to improper use of supplied or other unsafe sources of water. Read more...
This document reports on the 1997 Conference on the Management of Shared River Basins, held in Maseru, Lesotho, which sought to investigate... Read more...
Banfora is a small community in Burkina Faso, with a population of approximately 50,000 inhabitants. The water supply for Banfora is tapped from a... Read more...
This article describes the effect of the enormous growth in the tanning industry in Tamil Nadu, India. Read more...
The efficacy of Chlor-floc tablets was evaluated for the removal of seeded pathogenic bacteria (Escherichia coli), coliphages and viruses (poliovirus... Read more...
This study was undertaken to ascertain the levels of aluminium in surface and ground waters used for water supply in Madras city and also to assess... Read more...
The present expansion of water improvement programmes in developing countries is hardly adapted to provide rural areas with an adequate supply of... Read more...
The effect of an agricultural technical change on intra-household welfare is discussed. Existing theories suggest that the distribution of resources... Read more...
As part of a research project on Alzheimer's disease and aluminium in drinking water, this article discusses chemical considerations relative to... Read more...