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Beyond the city’s borders: water and sanitation access for refugees in Mafraq
… camps. Camps offer safety and basic services including shelter, food, water and sanitation. But while intended as temporary settlements, camps are often …
Insight, 28 September 2023
Rethinking humanitarian aid for refugees as investment in urban water and sanitation
… brings together engineers and social scientists and focuses on water and sanitation (WASH) infrastructure in Jordan. This is one of the world’s …
Project, 27 May 2021
Simplified sewerage systems: lessons from Dar es Salaam
… 38% of the global urban population lacked access to safely-managed sanitation. By 2050, urban areas are expected to grow by another two billion people, placing huge demands on already struggling water supply and waste systems. In sub-Saharan Africa, those lacking …
Insight, 05 September 2023
Urban water and sanitation
… Bad sanitation is degrading, disagreeable, unhealthy and far too prevalent, … laggard today, though there are some bright spots. The situation with water is better, but still far from good enough. The statistics indicate …
Project, 01 September 2014
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Universalising water and sanitation coverage in urban areas: From global targets to local realities in Dar es Salaam, and back
… a key role in supporting efforts to move towards universal access to water and sanitation. Reflecting on Dar es Salaam, Tanzania, this paper …
Publication, 01 December 2016
How small changes can make a big impact in achieving sustainable sanitation
… raising awareness of the 4.5 billion people without access to safe sanitation. Talking about toilets can be a bit of a taboo. But we need … toilets, natural lighting, comfortable toilet dimensions and running water. By contrast, when the same question was put to the villagers …
Insight, 09 December 2020
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Urban climate resilience, water and sanitation: Improving multi-stakeholder collaboration in Dhaka, Bangladesh
… in Dhaka city to improve climate change resilience of the urban water and sanitation (WATSAN) sector, with a focus on the urban poor. The findings … The output of the analysis reveals that heavy rainfall, flooding, water logging and heatwaves are the major climatic impacts that affect …
Publication, 01 September 2015
Reimagining solutions to India’s water challenge: the art of governance
… population with only 4% of the world’s freshwater. Since 1950, water availability per family has fallen by 70% and 600 million people … from a list of agreed interventions, such as water harvesting and sanitation infrastructure. A disruptive ‘business unusual’ approach This …
Insight, 20 January 2021
Global Water Initiative: Ghana
… CRS, CARE, IUCN, and Pronet (local partner) Integrated Water Resource Management and Water, Sanitation and Hygiene (2008-12) GWI West Africa work in Ghana began in …
Project, 16 February 2018
Global Water Initiative: Niger
… with the objective of developing irrigation over 45,000 hectares Water for agriculture (2013-17) Our work in Niger focused on achieving … Valley showed that there was limited access to drinking water and to sanitation facilities, poor hygiene and sanitation behaviour, and a lack …
Project, 16 February 2018