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On the 16th and 17 November, the new members of the Swiss Water Partnership presented their projects and approaches. The presenting members were: Das blaue Wunder WATALUX Wasser für Wasser Skat Foundation Links2Water Development Listen to the presentations of Day 1 and Day 2, have a look at the presentations or read the summary of [...]
Objectives: (i) to identify and describe these waterbodies (ponds, small reservoirs) and their associated ecological, social, and economical services in the pasture landscape from the Cerrado, (ii) based on this information, to disseminate to stakeholders (and particularly to schools) the basic knowledge on these ecosystems and on “good” practices enhancing their services. Read more
The project uses mobile technology in collecting, analysing and dispersing information on water resources to provide better water resource management and planning for Pangani River Basin in Tanzania. The main tasks of hydrosolutions in the project include hydro-climatological modelling, optimizing resources management and planning, coupling information input and decision making in water resources management. The […]
World Bank funded this project with the main objective of scaling up Sanitation Marketing in two provinces of Cambodia. The project is going deep by engaging government, the supply chain, and NGO actors to encourage large numbers of the population to purchase adequate latrines. The project will also develop an adapted latrine option for use […]
Geo Expertise had conducted in collaboration with the Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies (IHEID) a campaign of collect geo-referenced data and satellite imagery analysis to assess the state of agriculture in Orontes Basin and North East of Syria. This study has contributed to assess the state of the agriculture sector and has identified […]
Saph Pani addresses the improvement of natural water treatment systems such as river bank filtration (RBF), managed aquifer recharge (MAR) and wetlands in India building on a combination of local and international expertise. The project aims at enhancing water resources and water supply particularly in water stressed urban and peri-urban areas in different parts of […]
Develop and test participatory and integrated methodology for water tratement (combination of SODIS and in-situ chlorination with WATA devices) and improved hygiene eduaction in 110 schools. A particular focus placed on schools because they are a key environment for social marketing. With their enormous potential to raise awareness and influence the future generation, they play […]
Background: The global strategy to control helminthiasis is preventive chemotherapy, which is the regular administration of anthelminthic drugs to at-risk populations. However, re-infection can occur rapidly as long as access to clean water and adequate sanitation has not been improved and hygiene behaviour remained unchanged. Current control efforts do not take these latter aspects sufficiently […]
The Government of Malawi is undertaking the National Water Development Program (NWDP) which aims to build on the achievements made under the previous projects, and will be supported jointly by development partners under the Sector Wide Approach process. NWDP is designed to assist in the implementation of the Government’s water and sanitation policies. In this […]