Water, Sanitation and Hygiene
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Water Lifting Devices
This is an updated and expanded new edition (formerly Water Pumping Devices), surveying the water-lifting technologies that are available and appropriate for smallholdings. It examines the costs and general suitability of the different technologies to enable farmers and policy makers to make informe...
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How Small Water Enterprises can Contribute to the Millenium Development Goals
This book is one of the outputs from a project designed to identify and test out ways of improving the water services delivered to the urban poor through SWEs. As such, it will prove an invaluable resource for water utility managers and policymakers. The book includes accounts of fieldwork undertake...
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Participartory Planning for Integrated Rural Water supply and Sanitation Programmes: Guidelines and manual (3rd Edition)
The Guidelines and supporting Manual on CD are to help planners and managers in national governments to develop their own rural water supply and sanitation programmes. They can also be used by consultants, and NGOs could adapt them for their programmes.
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Water Safety Plans
This book has been written specifically for practitioners involved in the operation, maintenance and management of piped water distribution systems in urban areas of developing countries. These practitioners include engineers, planners, managers, and water professionals involved in the monitoring, c...
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Water Safety Plans - Book 3: Risk Assessment of Contaminant Intrusion into Water Distribution Systems
Book 3 is a manual for using the developed software, IRA-WDS (Improved Risk Assessment for Water Distribution Systems), a geographical information system (GIS) that aids in evaluating the risk of deterioration of the water distribution network of a water supply systems.
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Improvement of Water Utility Management and Reduction of Unaccounted-for-Water
The African Water Utility Partnership for Capacity Building projects is part of the SIDA-funded Water Utility Partnership (WUP) Action Programme. WUP has pioneered a successful partnership between Severn Trent Water International , WEDC and six African water utilities to work together on the 'Improv...
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Small Water Enterprises in Africa 1 - Tanzania: A Study of Small Water Enterprises in Dar es Salaam
For centuries, Small Water Enterprises (SWEs) have supplied a large share of the water market in the urban centres of most low-income countries. Such SWEs have proved themselves economically viable, and often operate in competitive conditions. They extend water services to informal settlements that...
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Small Water Enterprises in Africa 2 - Kenya: A Study of Small Water Enterprises in Nairobi
For centuries, Small Water Enterprises (SWEs) have supplied a large share of the water market in the urban centres of most low-income countries. Such SWEs have proved themselves economically viable, and often operate in competitive conditions. They extend water services to informal settlements that...
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Small Water Enterprises in Africa 3 - Sudan: A Study of Small Water Enterprises in Khartoum
For centuries, Small Water Enterprises (SWEs) have supplied a large share of the water market in the urban centres of most low-income countries. Such SWEs have proved themselves economically viable, and often operate in competitive conditions. They extend water services to informal settlements that...
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Small Water Enterprises in Africa 4 - Ghana: A Study of Small Water Enterprises in Accra
For centuries, Small Water Enterprises (SWEs) have supplied a large share of the water market in the urban centres of most low-income countries. Such SWEs have proved themselves economically viable, and often operate in competitive conditions. They extend water services to informal settlements that...