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In the humanitarian coordination system of 'clusters', the water, sanitation and hygiene (WASH) cluster is widely acknowledged to be among the best functioning.
This report, based on interviews conducted with more than 50 individuals with experience of the WASH cluster in more than 25 countries, focusses on evidence of improved humanitarian response from the WASH cluster and what...
The people of Tajikistan, a small, mountainous country in Central Asia, are experiencing the impacts of climate change. More frequent droughts and heightened extreme weather conditions are hitting poor communities, eroding their resilience. The country's glaciers are melting, bringing the danger, in the future, of greater water shortages and potential disputes in the wider region. Last...
For the rapidly urbanising developing world, safe and affordable water is key to health and livelihoods, as well as meeting the Millennium Development Goals. But providing it demands innovative models. Where the context allows and the approach is appropriate, private sector involvement can generate win-win outcomes. Poor people can gain access to high-quality, affordable services, and...
This paper attempts to understand gender issues in smallholder irrigation technology by exploring the dynamics of gender, drip irrigation and rural livelihood. Based on an empirical study undertaken in 2003 in rural areas of West Nepal, the paper tries to assess the appropriateness of the technology, particularly the drip irrigation system, from gender perspective in flushing out rural poverty...
California’s growing population, its $1.4 trillion economy and natural resources all require clean, reliable and affordable water. At the same time with extremely limited federal, state and local budgets no one can afford to make investment decisions that will not produce results.
This Investment Strategy for California Water identifies the most cost-effective,...
Participatory Impact Pathways Analysis (PIPA) is a practical planning, and monitoring and evaluation approach developed for use with complex projects in the water and food sectors. PIPA begins with a participatory workshop where stakeholders make explicit their assumptions about how their project will achieve an impact. Participants construct problem trees, carry out a visioning exercise and...
Water is one of the most critical resource and constraint in the semi-arid tropics (SAT). To minimise land degradation and sustain crop productivity in the SAT, management and efficient utilisation of rainwater is important. Watershed-based resource utilisation involves the optimum use of the area’s precipitation for the improvement and stabilization of agriculture on the watershed...
Low variable rainfall, high financial risk and poor physical and social infrastructure characterise these semi-arid tropics. Some 350 million poor people in 48 developing countries live in these fragile ecosystems on a budget of one US dollar or less a day. While the number of absolute poor living in the irrigated areas of India declined by 20% (from 37 million to 30 million) between 1972 and...
The energy in falling water can be converted into electrical energy or into mechanical energy to pump water or grind grain. The amount of energy that can be captured is a function of the vertical distance the water drops (the head) and the volume of the water. One hundred cubic metres of water falling 10 metres (a low head application) represents the same energy potential as 10 cubic metres of...
The manual looks at solid waste and water management and provides guidelines and examples of how tourism operations can achieve positive results and minimise harm to a community's ecological and physical systems. Specific case studies highlight larger hotel chains, which have already implemented environmental management systems but the main focus is on SMEs in developing...
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