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Water Week: Sustainability and Growth
01.07.2007
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Books
01.04.2007
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Books
01.10.2006
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Taking sanitation to scale
01.10.2006
What are the challenges that need to be overcome and the promising approaches being advanced to deal with the world's global sanitation crisis?. -
Wastewater reuse for agriculture and aquaculture – current and future perspectives for low-income countries
01.07.2004
Exploiting the nutrient and water value in wastewater through agriculture and aquaculture may also help limit uncontained pollution that results from unregulated disposal of wastewater in surface water bodies. Treatment processes form an important part of wastewater reuse strategies, alongside other measures to protect health, but a concerted effort to promote capacity at all levels is required to enable the benefits of wastewater reuse to be realized. -
Urban drainage in developing countries – challenges and opportunities
01.04.2002
Wastewater, the 'unwanted' water of a city, includes all types of domestic, commercial and industrial effluent as well as stormwater runoff during times of rainfall. This article highlights some of the challenges for urban planners and engineers in the design of effective urban drainage and stormwater management systems in developing countries. -
Sanitation Challenge for Ghana (SC4Gh): motivating local authorities through innovation prizes to achieve SDG6
01.07.2021
As part of the UK Government-funded Ideas to Impact programme, the Sanitation Challenge for Ghana (SC4Gh) ran from 2015 to 2019 aiming to incentivize local authorities in Ghana to prioritize resources to improve municipal sanitation services towards the achievement of Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) 6. The paper reviews the overall results of the SC4Gh and discusses selected results for the Metropolitan, Municipal, and District Assemblies (MMDAs) involved. The most notable outcome was that MMDAs involved were able to make significant improvements across the sanitation value chain with limited technical support and no upfront external donor funding. Another important outcome was the empowering aspect of the prize process which enabled MMDAs to innovate their plans based upon their own ideas to improve sanitation services. The prize process was an unprecedented opportunity for MMDAs throughout the country to participate in an international programme, resulting in encouraging results particularly from smaller, less well-resourced MMDAs in remote parts of Ghana who secured prizes in both stages of the Challenge.