The project at hand is designed to contribute to the overall aim to sustainably improve the wellbeing and health conditions of the poorest and most vulnerable communities in South Sudan. More specifically the project proposes to increase the beneficiaries’ access to sufficient and clean drinking water, reduce water shortage during dry seasons, and increase their […]

Kickstart your own business with the cewas Start-up Programme! The cewas Start-up Programme supports dedicated entrepreneurs to develop their business ideas for a sustainable development of the water and sanitation sector. cewas is a Swiss-based non-profit competence centre combining expertise in sustainable water, sanitation and resource management with business innovation. The cewas Start-up Programme consists […]

This multi-country project scales the adoption of appropriate technologies through a proven supply chain dissemination approach. The project focuses on facilitating the adoption of micro-irrigation technologies amongst poor, rural farmers and on improving access to safe water systems. The project will provide 300,000 farmers with improved micro-irrigation technologies and 3 million poor households with safe […]

The principle aim of a water access, sanitation and hygiene (WASH) project is to create conditions under which risk of waterborne disease transmission are minimised. However, providing a community or school with safe water that improves health conditions is not a matter of simply installing a new, clean source. It is also necessary that communities […]

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

Water treatment, one of the major strands of the CleantechAlps platform, is not among the best-known fields of cleantech. With the aim of demonstrating the existing expertise in western Switzerland and outlining the main issues involved in this sector, we are presenting you with this updated survey. It will introduce you to some of the […]

We develop leading innovative and technical piping systems for the treatment and distribution of water as well as the safe transport of industrial fluids and gases. More than 60,000 products allow individual solutions for a large range of demanding applications and processes in a wide variety of sectors. For many years customers rely on – […]

RISE is an indicator-based method for holistic sustainability assessment of agricultural production at farm level, attempting to make sustainability better measurable, communicable and tangible. The RISE analysis depicts ecological, economic and social aspects of the sustainability of agricultural production on the basis of 10 indicators, which are calculated from 50 parameters. Since 2000, RISE has […]

The East Port of Spain dry river canal divides the formal from the informal city containing many marginalized and isolated communities. This project is developing solutions to rehabilitate and upgrade the canal which currently floods the city during the rainy season. Read more