Readers’ Opinion
Key sector people are occasionally giving readers’ opinion in the Source family of newsletters. Here you’ll find a collection of opinions. You are invited to provide a reaction by using the comment button at the bottom.
Can the Millennium Development Goal for sanitation be achieved?
Huub Gijsen, UNESCO-IHE Institute for Water Education in Delft argues that the sanitation MDG lags behind and that a specific programme for addressing wastewater is missing.
Features
SMS campaign to save water in Madhya Pradesh
"Sir, kindly save water for a safe future," says the SMS doing the rounds in Indore, Madhya Pradesh, India.
Bolivia: a virtuous cycle from water, to cows, to milk, to household income
Around the city of Cochabamba in Bolivia, about 800 locally-managed water supply systems serve communities in peri-urban areas. One system in Challacaba is fairly typical: with a deep borehole linked to a piped network serving 435 inhabitants in 60 households.
Multiple use inspires policy makers
“One of the most exciting things this week,” was the enthusiastic response from Roberto Lenton of the Global Water Partnership at a well attended session on multiple-use water services (MUS) at the 4th World Water Forum (20 March 2006).
Cool verse proves a winner
Here is the winning poem of the World Water Day York Children's Water Festival in Canada by Melanie (11 years of age).
IRC News
Policy brief on multiple-use approaches
A new policy brief on a multiple-use approach to meeting the water needs of poor communities has been published in the IWMI Water Policy Briefing series.
9 cities and 32 partners SWITCH on to water needs of the future
'The City of the Future' is an attempt to project the needs of cities 30-50 years from now. SWITCH (Sustainable Water management Improves Tomorrow’s Cities’ Health) aims at developing, applying and demonstrating a range of scientific, technological and socio-economic solutions towards achieving sustainable and effective urban water management schemes.
New publication: multiple-use water services to advance Millennium Development Goals
This new research report (IWMI Research Report No 98) by Barbara van Koppen, Patrick Moriarty and Eline Boelee presents results from the project “Multiple-use water services” (MUS).
Facilitating Community Water Supply: From transferring filtration technology to multi-stakeholder learning
Former IRC Director Jan Teun Visscher obtained a Ph.D degree for his dissertation ‘Facilitating Community Water Supply: From transferring filtration technology to multi-stakeholder learning’.
