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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 [...]
Fontes – affordable water for DRC remote areas Through its local partner Fontes will provide water delivery services in DR Congo by taking over existing schemes to serve large communities living in rural and semi-urban areas. Fontes will add energy services as needed and develop the needed monitoring and payments systems. Fontes has been operating […]
Trunz Water Systems in cooperation with the local dealer installed several water treatment systems in remote communities where no infrastructure was available. All units are powered by solar energy and work independently, even under harsh climate conditions. A water and pumping station was built in each village where the inhabitants can fill in bottles etc. […]
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 […]
Ever concerned with highlighting the benefits of rainwater harvesting, the International Rainwater Harvesting Alliance (IRHA) , works to promote this vital, but underused resource. In 2007, the IRHA created the Raindrops Geneva Award, an art biannual competition, that has been an important part of our awareness raising activities ever since. Linking Development with the Arts, […]
Background: The frequency of extreme weather events associated with climate change, particularly floods, has increased in West Africa. Floods can negatively affect water quality by causing faecal pathogens contamination in riverine cities in West Africa and by changing ecological conditions for vectors of some water related disease (malaria, schistosomiasis). There is a paucity of data […]
The IRHA Blue Schools Plus programme is specially tailored for mountainous regions. It changes the entire water, hygiene and sanitation conditions in schools, but also targets the local population living in a very difficult geographical and economical context. The project took place in four schools located in the Kaski district of Nepal. They either had […]
IBG has realized the final engineering design of this twin pipeline water transmission system from the Persian Gulf to Riyadh City. A total length of 900 km of pipes with typical diameters between 1200 and 1800 mm has been placed within this project for transporting 900’000 m3/d of water. IBG’s very broad involvement includes for […]
WaterHealth India (WHIN) is a wholly owned subsidiary of WaterHealth International, a company that aims at providing scalable, safe drinking water solutions to underserved areas in India through advanced technology and self-sustaining business models based on WaterHealth Centres. These centres are modular structures that house water purification equipment to treat locally available water. Each WHC […]