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IRC International Water and Sanitation Centre
http://www.irc.nl
IRC is an independent, non-profit organisation supported by and linked with the Netherlands Government, the United Nations Development Programme, the United Nations Children's Fund, the World Health Organization, the World Bank and the Water Supply and Sanitation Collaborative Council. IRC facilitates the sharing, promotion and use of knowledge so that governments, professionals and organisations can better support poor men, women and children in developing countries to obtain water and sanitation services they will use and maintain (new mission statement 2002). Using its web site, documentation, publications, IRC advocates change and aims to improve the information and knowledge base of the sector.

IRC International Water and Sanitation Centre
Contact person: Patrick Moriarty
P.O. Box 2869
2601 CW Delft
The Netherlands
Tel: + 31 (0)15 21 929 62
Fax: + 31 (0)15 21 909 55
E-mail: moriarty@irc.nl

Patrick Moriarty

Patrick Moriarty heads IRC’s Knowledge Development and Advocacy section. His background is in Civil Engineering and Water Resource Management, with an emphasis on interdisciplinary work on local level water resource management issues. He currently specialises in aspects relating the water and sanitation sector to wider water resource management including productive uses of water, the role of domestic water supplies in livelihoods, and institutional reform for improved local level water resource management.

NRI Natural Resources Institute
http://www.nri.org/water
NRI is a specialist institute of the University of Greenwich, providing research, consultancy, training and advisory services to underpin sustainable development in the south. The institute’s work involves interdisciplinary and cross-sectoral approaches to improving the quality of life of the rural and urban poor. NRI subscribes to the Millennium Development Goals and works with donor organisations to achieve them.

NRI plays an important role in capacity building in the south through its activities, and partnerships encompassing the full range of stakeholders in international development from donors to community-based organizations. The institute is a member of the consortium to provide the ‘OASIS’ resource centre in water resources management to the UK Department of International Development.

NRI Natural Resources Institute
Contact person: JohnButterworth
University of Greenwich at Medway
Central Avenue
Chatham Maritime
Kent, ME4 4TB
United Kingdom
Tel: +44 (0)1634 880088
Fax: +44 (0)1634 880066/77
Email: j.a.butterworth@gre.ac.uk

John Butterworth
John Butterworth is a water management specialist at NRI. He has previously worked for the UK Department for International Development, the Centre for Ecology and Hydrology, and Scott Wilson Resource Consultants on a range of projects and programmes, principally in southern Africa, India and Bolivia. His current research interests include: water resources management issues in relation to WATSAN and how these are reflected in integrated water resources management (IWRM) processes; the impacts of water supplies on livelihoods, optimising the potential of multi-purpose water supplies to reduce poverty; and the processes of negotiation in peri-urban water conflicts.