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 […]

The Back Bay, located on the southern tip of the city, is an area where pressures collide; it is a place on the edge of conflict, on the edge of the city – on contested waters. The goal of the project was to re-imagine the city of Mumbai through this waterfront – to develop and […]

The scale of the water problem is at the heart of all sustainable development debates in the world. Water is a comprehensive ecosystem service and equitable access to water for all is one of the major challenges of the 21st century. Hundreds of millions of people are deprived of water, not because it is a […]

Most of the drinking water systems in the hill areas are gravity flow systems using natural spring water. The water sources may be used or claimed by several hamlets for different purposes. Thus, water resources planning at local level are an essential step towards sustainable and equitable resource management. The Water Resources Management Programme (WARM-P) […]

GIWEH International Conference on Water Resources and Environmental Management (ICWRE) is a series of conferences organized in cooperation with UNESCO-IHE Institute for Water Education, Ecole Mohammadia d’Ingénieurs, United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP), World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO), Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO), University of Geneva, Miahona. ICWRE-2011 was held on 20-24 […]

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 […]

Youth leadership Program is organized in collaboration with the University of Geneva, the United Nations Environmental Programme (UNEP), Damascus University in Syria, Fez University and the Faculté des science semlalia Marrakech at the University Cadi Ayyad in Morocco, and Birmingham University in the United Kingdom. The program focuses on water and environmental issues with an […]

The Toolkit aims at assisting development practitioners in effectively contributing to the realization of the human right to water and sanitation in the country of intervention. This material is structured according to the Project Cycle Management (PCM).

Kenya: Water kiosks for villages Rural populations in northern Kenya suffer from acute water scarcity because the environment they live in is semi-arid. Local infrastructure is limited and a pastoralist lifestyle prevails. Water scarcity, poor water quality and opportunity costs (time spent searching for and collecting water, nutritional loss, etc.) lead to frequent water borne […]