'Beyond domestic: Case studies on poverty and productive uses of water at the household level' by IRC, NRI and IWMI, has just come out. Edited by Patrick Moriarty, John Butterworth and Barbara van Koppen, this is the final output of the January 2003 symposium on productive uses of water (see the www.irc.nl/prodwat website for further details).

The book contains nine excellent case studies from around the world (Latin America, Africa and Asia) and spans many aspects of multiple uses including waste-water irrigation, domestic use of irrigation schemes, and productive use of domestic schemes.

Chapter titles

1. Water, poverty and productive uses of water at the household level - Introduction
2. Productive uses of water at the household level: evidence from Bushbuckridge, South Africa
3. Multiple use of water, livelihoods and poverty in Colombia: a case study from the Ambichinte micro-catchment
4. Productive use of wastewater by poor urban and peri-urban farmers: Asian and African case studies in the context of the Hyderabad Declaration on wastewater use
5. Multiple use of irrigation water in Northeastern Morocco
6. Livelihoods in conflict: disputes over water household-level productive uses in Tarata, Bolivia
7. Transforming access to rural water into profitable business opportunities.
8. Productive water strategies for poverty reduction in Zimbabwe
9. Linking water supply and rural enterprise: issues and illustration from India
10. A multi-sectoral approach to sustainable rural water supply: the role of the rope handpump in Nicaragua

The book is available from IRC for Euro 26, Order code: TP 41-E, and can be ordered from IRC's publications page - http://www.irc.nl/page/5980 (where more details can also be found).

Contact: publications@irc.nl

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