Fact sheets, technical briefs, thematic overviews
These resources, coming from different organisations, provide in-depth information on a specific (technology) topic.
SKAT modelling software
31 Mar 06
Fact sheets on 15 appropriate and commonly encountered computer programmes for the design and upkeep of drinking water distribution networks in developing countries: AquaNet; Archimede; Branch/Loop; Cross; Epanet 2.0; Eraclito; H2Onet/H2Omap; Helix delta-Q; Mike Net; Netis; OptiDesigner; Pipe2000; Stanet; Wadiso SA; and WaterCAD 5.0.
In: SKAT (2002). Review of modelling software for piped distribution networks. St. Gallen, Switzerland, SKAT (Working papers on water supply and environmental sanitation; no. 3). 17 p.
WaterAid Technology Notes
08 Feb 11
Provides outlines of the technologies used by WaterAid on long-term development projects in Africa and Asia, and shows alternatives which might be appropriate in different circumstances. [date of publishing unknown]
Topics include: considerations before design; hygiene education; water resource development; gravity schemes; hand dug wells; tubewells and boreholes; hand pumps; spring protection; rainwater harvesting; subsurface dams; sanitation; disinfection; treatment of water.
WELL Fact Sheets
09 Sep 05
The WELL, Resource Centre Network for Water, Sanitation and Environmental Health, provides services and resources for the Department for International Development (DFID) of the British government and partner agencies.
Topics include: arsenic in drinking water; rainwater harvesting; HIV/AIDS and watsan; hygiene promotion; public private partnerships; school sanitation; solid waste disposal; sustaining hygiene behaviour.
WELL Technical Briefs
09 Sep 05
The Technical Briefs are prepared by Rod Shaw, Design and Production Editor of WEDC publications, in association with leading authors in the field, each short brief concludes with useful sources of further information.
Topics include: hand pumps; wells; desalination; emergency sanitation; latrine pits; on plot sanitation; wastewater treatment.
WHO water-related diseases fact sheets
28 Jul 04
Topics include: arsenicosis; cholera; diarrhoea; fluorosis; guinea-worm disease; schistosomiasis; trachoma.
