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A special issue of ' Water Alternatives' journal looks at trends in water services in rural areas. Read more...
Strengthening local government capacity for service delivery remains a key challenge for the water, sanitation and hygiene sector. Read more...
It would be easy, and wrong, to say that global conferences rarely deliver results, for sometimes they offer brand new ways of seeing things. Read more...
Fee-based approaches alone won't cut it when it comes to getting decent-quality services to the poor. Read more...
Looking at what can be done to bring professionalism into community-based water supply. Read more...
This meeting at the Netherlands Embassy in Addis was a very special one, for a number of reasons. Read more...
"One plan – one budget – one report" is the catchphrase for the Ethiopian government's newly launched sector-wide approach to WASH. Read more...
How can NGOs and donors partner more effectively with government to meet the challenges of delivering WASH services that last? The WASH Sustainability Forum tackled this issue. Report now on-line. Read more...
In March 2013, CONASA, approved Honduras first every national policy for water and sanitation. Read more...
What lessons do the past six years of sector collaboration in Ethiopia hold for the future? Read more...
A new report shows the impact of post-construction support on rural water supply in Colombia. Read more...
Independent state regulators will not be able to solve the deep-rooted water governance crisis in India, says India Country Director Dr. V. Kurian Baby. After a decade of failure, a new approach is needed: a bottom-up process of social and participatory regulation. There are enough successful... Read more...
The Ministry for Water, Hydraulic Infrastructure and Sanitation of Burkina Faso represented by Dr. Mamounata Belem Ouedraogo, and IRC, represented in Burkina Faso by Mr. Hermann Juste Nansi, have signed a Memorandum of Understanding on October 1, 2013 to strengthen their collaboration and to put... Read more...
In Uganda, the Mobile for Water project gives communities an SMS hotline to a handpump mechanic. Read more...
At the World Water Week, SWA made a commitment to play a pivotal role to contribute to and help shape the means of implementation, as well as follow-up and review of the water, sanitation and hygiene related targets of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). Read more...
Prepared by Vida Duti and Emmanuel Gaze; presented at the Triple-S Annual Review and Planning Meeting (ARAP), Fort Portal Uganda, 6th-11th May 2013 Read more...
Elder Joe is the proud secretary of a water committee managing a handpump on the outskirts of Odumase town in Ghana. But the committee would rather manage a different type of system. Read more...
The costs of getting spare parts for handpumps can sometimes be higher than the costs of the parts. But a new SMS-based system might help. Read more...