Water supply and sanitation
IRC International Water and Sanitation Centre
21 Sep 10
Provides news and information (including advocacy/communication, publications, bibliographic database) on low-cost water supply and sanitation in developing countries. Hosts Source, a Water News Service; the InterWATER gateway to water and sanitation organisations; and World Water Day web sites.
IRC also hosts the WASH Portal, which includes the web sites of projects and partners such as CREPA (Burkina Faso),Gender and Water Alliance (GWA), Resource Centre Network Ghana, Hygiene Improvement Programme (HIP), Inter-Islamic Network on Water Resources Development and Management (INWRDAM), Multiple Use water Services, WATSAN Resource Centre (Uganda), WASTE, Water Integrity Network (WIN), WASH in Schools and World Water Day.
Water and Sanitation Program, WSP
28 Jul 04
World Bank Partnership Program. WSP is an international partnership with four regional offices: Africa, Andean Region, East Asia & Pacific, South Asia.
World Bank Water Supply and Sanitation
28 Jul 04
The World Bank Group's activities in water and sanitation include financial services; advice on sector policies and programmes; knowledge services; training.
UNICEF - Water, Environment and Sanitation
28 Jul 04
UNICEF has supported longer-term WES programming initiatives in some 90 countries in Asia, Africa and the Americas.The web site includes the online version of newsletter WATERfront and many publications available to download.
World Health Organization, Water, Sanitation and Health
28 Jul 04
Provides guidelines, training, tools, and databases on water, sanitation and health.
Rural Water Supply Network (RWSN)
21 Sep 10
A global knowledge network for rural water supply technologies and approaches managed by the SKAT Foundation. RWSN focuses on sub-Saharan Africa and four main themes: Cost-effective boreholes (CEB), Sustainable rural water supplies (SRWS), Self supply (SS), and Handpump technologies (HT).
The web site provides on-line documents (field notes, reports and manuals) and links on the each of the four themes, as well as a newsletter. The newsletter and selected documents are also available in French.
Water, Engineering & Development Centre (WEDC)
28 Jul 04
WEDC forms the core of the Institute of Development Engineering. WEDC is concerned with education, training, research, and consultancy relating to planning, provision and management of physical infrastructure for development in low- and middle-income countries.
Zunia - Water
07 Feb 11
Zunia is a Development Gateway interactive portal for information and knowledge sharing on sustainable development and poverty reduction. The Water thematic page includes the latest documents on water supply and sanitation, and water resources management.
Pan American Center for Sanitary Engineering and Environmental Sciences (CEPIS)
31 Mar 06
The leading provider of sector information on the web in Latin America, with quite a large virtual library of downloadable documents.
