Water, Sanitation and Hygiene
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Accountability Arrangements to Combat Corruption in the Delivery of Infrastructure Services in Bangladesh
The sustainability of the livelihoods of the poor in low- and middle-income countries is compromised by corruption in the delivery of infrastructure services. Such services include water supply, sanitation, drainage, the provision of access roads and paving, transport, solid waste management, street...
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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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Water reforms and the poor
This volume consists of two discussion papers that provide insights in addressing pro-poor concerns in water policy.
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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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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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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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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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L'Alimentation en Eau et les Installations Sanitaires: pour les personnes handicapees
Plus de 500 millions de personnes dans le monde sont handicapées et la majorité d’entre elles vivent dans la pauvreté au sein de communautés à faible revenu. Le manque d’accès à des installations sanitaires et à l’eau potable constitue un facteur essentiel de la pauvreté de ces personnes. Il sera di...
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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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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...