Access to clean drinking water improves health – essentially of small children – and allows women to safe time for other activities. During the dry season, many use the well water for small scale vegetable gardening; they improve the diet of the household and can even generate some income. Therefore SWISSAID supports the construction of water wells and boreholes as well as community water supply.
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Events
Thematic expertise
Integrated Water Resources Management
- Watershed & land management (basin/local level, participatory/multi-stakeholder planning)
Water for people
- Rural/ semi-urban water supply and sanitation
- Water technologies (water supply and treatment)
- Hygiene promotion and behavior changes
- Operation and maintenance, monitoring (soft aspects)
Water for food
- Irrigation techniques (e.g. efficiency of irrigation technologies)
- Operation and maintenance of infrastructure (soft aspects)
Geographic expertise
Contact Person
Frank Haupt - f.haupt@swissaid.ch