Research
African Union research grant: open call includes €1.75 million for water and sanitation
Water and Sanitation in Africa is one of the three thematic priorities in the African Union Commission’s open call for research grants. The application deadline is 30 April 2011. A total of €1.75 million is available for a maximum of three projects in the water and sanitation theme. Individual grants of between € 500,000 and € 750,000 […]
India: inadequate sanitation costs the equivalent of 6.4 percent of GDP
Inadequate sanitation costs India US$ 53.8 billion, which is equivalent to 6.4 percent of India’s GDP in 2006, according to a new report [1] from the Water and Sanitation Program (WSP). The study analyzed the evidence on the adverse economic impacts of inadequate sanitation, which include costs associated with death and disease, accessing and treating […]
Pro-poor water services: investment scenarios for Kamapala, Uganda
Water service to the urban poor presents challenges to political leaders, regulators and managers. A new study identifies technology mixes of yard taps, public water points (with and without pre-paid meters) to meet alternative constraints, and reflecting populations served and investment requirements. Three investment scenarios have different implications for improving water access to over 400,000 […]
Non-dam alternatives for delivering water services at least cost and risk
This paper [1] by staff Conservation International (Arlington, VA, USA), highlights ways to balance water for people with water for nature. A critically important approach that the authors propose involves the use of Integrated Resource Plans (IRP) for water service delivery, decoupling utility revenues from gross sales systems and end-use efficiency. [1] Totten, M.P., Killeen, […]
Ghana: VC calls for consistency in the maintenance of water systems
Professor Kwasi Kwafo Adarkwa, Vice-Chancellor of Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology (KNUST), has called for consistency in the maintenance of the country’s water systems. This, he said had become necessary to tackle the growing rate at which water and sanitation facilities provided for the communities are becoming dysfunctional. He was addressing the opening […]
SPLASH research call on sustainable sanitation service chains
SPLASH, the ERA-NET of the European Water Initiative will launch a research call on 1st March, 2010. The overall call budget will be approx. 1.7 Million Euro. Deadline for submitting concept notes: April 23, 2010, 13:00 (CET). The major objective of the SPLASH research call is to contribute to the understanding and implementation at scale […]
Africa Analysis: Can donors prove aid works?
Aid agencies, under pressure to prove their worth, should seize the opportunity to make spending more accountable, says Linda Nordling in an opinion piece in SciDev.Net. Having spent billions on stimulus packages to kick-start their stricken economies, rich governments are querying why, with unemployment rising at home and people foreclosing on loans, billions of taxpayers’ […]
Call for proposals – Conflict and Cooperation over Natural Resources in Developing Countries [Deadline 03 Nov 2009]
WOTRO Science for Global Development has recently launched the first call of the research programme Conflict and Cooperation over Natural Resources in Developing Countries (CoCooN) – integrated projects. One of the three themes is: Water resources, conflict and cooperation. CoCooN is a knowledge, research and innovation programme funded by the Directorate General of Development Cooperation […]
Post-construction support and sustainability in community-managed rural water supply
Bakalian, A. and Wakeman, W. (eds) (2009). Post-construction support and sustainability in community-managed rural water supply : case studies in Peru, Bolivia, and Ghana. (Water Sector Board discussion paper series ; no. 14). Washington, DC, USA, Bank-Netherlands Water Partnership (BNWP), World Bank. xvii, 114 p. : 2 boxes, 1 fig., 38 tab. Incl. ref. Download […]
Cost-benefit analysis: comparisons of investments in improved water supply and cholera vaccination programs
Jeuland, M, and Whittington, D. (2009) Cost-benefit comparisons of investments in improved water supply and cholera vaccination programs. Vaccine ; vol. 27, no. 23 ; p. 3109-3120. doi:10.1016/j.vaccine.2009.02.104 This paper presents the first cost–benefit comparison of improved water supply investments and cholera vaccination programs. Specifically, we compare two water supply interventions – deep wells with […]
