Water

Our water work focuses on sanitation in urban areas, and tools and tactics for ensuring that water is equitably allocated and governed

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Rainwater harvesting in vulnerable homes in Santo Domingo’s colonial centre

14 February 2024

Insight

Beyond the city’s borders: water and sanitation access for refugees in Mafraq

Reem Alhaddadin
28 September 2023

View of informal housing and vegetation in the background.

Insight

Simplified sewerage systems: lessons from Dar es Salaam

Christopher Yap
05 September 2023

A group of people look at a TV screen, in front of which a computer shows how they appear on the screen.

News

Indigenous Peoples call for recognition of vital role in protecting mountain water towers

16 June 2023

Man and woman fill up jerry cans with water from a fountain

Insight

Water access in the drylands – what’s not working?

Claire Bedelian
11 November 2022

Woman crouching grabbing wet clothes from a basket.

Insight

An unexpected cooperative project to lighten women's pandemic clothes-washing burden

Guntoro Muhammad and Dian Irawaty
01 August 2022

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Global Water Initiative – West Africa

The Global Water Initiative sought to improve global food security by enabling farmers to better access, manage and use water resources for sustainable agricultural production

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Inclusive blue economy

A programme of work supporting resilient marine and coastal ecosystems and the millions of people who depend on them to thrive by aligning incentives with investments

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Urban crises and forced displacement

A programme of work on urban refugees and internally displaced peoples that also supports municipal authorities to respond to crisis and protracted displacement

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Publications

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Water sector reform, climate change and climate-resilient planning in central Tanzania

Sharing the benefits of hydropower to improve displaced people’s livelihoods

Who Pays for Water? Preparing for the use of market-based mechanisms to improve the contribution of watershed services to livelihoods in the Caribbean

Action-learning to develop and test upstream-downstream transactions for watershed protection services: a diagnostic report from Segara River basin, Indonesia

Land tenure conditions and the viability of irrigated rice farming

Monitoring checklists: water points and latrines

Drawers of Water: 30 Years of Change in Domestic Water Use and Environmental Health - Overview

Action-learning to develop and test upstream-downstream transactions for watershed protection services in Indonesia

Scoping a DFID research programme on water ecosystem services and poverty reduction under climate change Report on Initial Findings Discussion Workshop 26th April 2007, British Medical Association, Tavistock Square, London

Balancing water stress and human crises in the Bekaa Valley

Rainwater harvesting in vulnerable homes in Santo Domingo’s colonial centre

Article, 14 February 2024

Beyond the city’s borders: water and sanitation access for refugees in Mafraq

Insight, 28 September 2023

Simplified sewerage systems: lessons from Dar es Salaam

Insight, 05 September 2023

Indigenous Peoples call for recognition of vital role in protecting mountain water towers

News, 16 June 2023

A small town sits beside a river with mountains in the background

Protecting and restoring critical water related ecosystems in mountains: the role of Indigenous Peoples and biocultural territories in mountain ecosystems

Event on 24 March 2023

Water access in the drylands – what’s not working?

Insight, 11 November 2022

An unexpected cooperative project to lighten women's pandemic clothes-washing burden

Insight, 01 August 2022

A field of bare earth covered with rows of dried stalks.

Climate, health and urban informal economies – stories of need and change

Article, 07 June 2022

Cranes tower over the construction of a dam, with a body of water in the foreground

Chinese hydropower starting to adopt social and environmental safeguarding norms, but with limitations

News, 17 March 2022

New archive restores knowledge produced by the World Commission on Dams

News, 21 December 2021