Solidarit’eau suisse is an initiative of the Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation (SDC), the Aguasan Group and Swiss aid organizations. This initiative enables local authorities and water providers to support a drinking water project in a developing country in an efficient and transparent manner. The initiative is based on Switzerland’s contribution to the achievement […]

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 […]

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 produces […]

Decentralized wastewater treatment and reuse plant for new office tower in Mumbai. 

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 […]

GIS for water, sewage, electricity, district heating and other mediums network systems.

The sunlight pump is a highly efficient portable solar water pump for small-scale irrigation and domestic water supply. It is an affordable technology that combines environment-friendliness and low maintenance costs with income, productivity and labour-saving benefits. The sunlight pump was developed by professors and students from the Berne University of Applied Sciences in Biel.

This WaterLex 2015 publication: Country Mapping: The Status of Implementation and Monitoring of the Human Right to Water and Sanitation in Uganda is available here to download. Executive Summary Access to safe water and sanitation is a human right, as recognized in 2010 by the United Nations General Assembly (UNGA). The Human Right to Water […]

Feasibility study for construction of two waste water treatment plants in Kasserine governorate, Tunisia, SECO 2011.