Scaling Up Multiple Use Water Services

Barbara van Koppen, Stef Smits, Cristina Rumbaitis del Rio, John Thomas

Poor people in developing countries need water for many purposes: for drinking, bathing, irrigating vegetable gardens, and watering livestock. However, responsibility for water services is divided between different government agencies, the WASH (Water, Sanitation and Hygiene) and irrigation sub-sect...

Community Well-being in Biocultural Landscapes

Bas Verschuuren, Suneetha M. Subramanian, Wim Hiemstra

There is a growing recognition that living well must go beyond economic and material plenty to encompass social and spiritual well-being. But what do we understand by these wider aspects of well-being? Community Well-being in Biocultural Landscapes provides an introduction to the concept of human w...

Into the Unknown

Robert Chambers

Development is about change, and lives immersed in researching international development should be prepared for exploration, for discovering the unexpected, and for questioning the direction that ‘development’ is taking. Robert Chambers reflects on experiences, which led him to examine personal bias...

Costing and Pricing - A Guide for Water Well Drilling Enterprises

This field note is written for water well drilling enterprises as well as other agencies which manage, or are involved in drilling projects. Using a step-by-step approach it gives clear guidance on how to cost and price the construction of drilled water wells.

Briquette Production Process

This is a poster that illustrates both carbonised and non carbonised briquette production process.

Solar PV Energy in Nepal

Renewable energy practices in Nepal

Stone Arch Bridges

Construction of stone arch bridges.

Peanut Roaster

The design and construction of a peanut roaster

Removing Arsenic From Water

This brief outlines the different arsenic removal methods and technologies that are available for use with small-scale supplies in developing countries.

Drip Irrigation ?System

A drip irrigation system delivers water directly to the root zone of a plant, where it seeps slowly into the soil one drop at a time. This document describes gravity operated drip irrigation system suitable for poor communities and households.