IRC Publications
This folder contains IRC publications on WASH and IWRM.
Water, Households and Rural Livelihoods: A guide to local water management
14 Oct 05
This website is targeted at water sector professionals who are actively engaged in the implementation of ‘Integrated Water Resources Management’ (IWRM). The main focus is on local opportunities and actions to secure and build upon the universal needs of people for household water supplies.
IWRM
28 Jun 04
This Thematic Overview Paper (TOP) aims to point readers towards ways of adopting and benefiting from IWRM principles in the water supply and sanitation (WATSAN) sub-sector. The full paper can be downloaded as pdf file.
Read more or download IWRM_Final_.pdf (166.7 kB)
Integrated Catchment Management and Sustainable Water Resource Development in Semi-arid Zimbabwe
01 Jan 03
The main message of the document is that groundwater in much of semi-arid Zimbabwe is a currently underused but fast developing resource that plays a key role in the livelihoods of rural people.
Read more or download OP35_IntegratedCatchment.pdf (2.6 MB)
Integrated Water Resource Management in Water and Sanitation Projects- Lessons from 11 projects in Africa, Asia and South America
01 Jan 99
The document reports the findings of a participatory review of 11 drinking water and sanitation supply (DWSS) and integrated water resource management (IWRM) projects from around the world.
Drinking Water Source Protection: a review of environmental factors affecting community water supplies
01 Jan 91
Presents an overview of the problems of protecting drinking water sources, analyzes their causes and nature and identifies ways of controlling or solving them.
A Groundwater Primer. Enlarged edition
01 Jan 91
Enlarged edition of a document originally published in 1981 and republished with corrections in 1983. Presents the basic principles of hydrology as an introduction to the occurrence and movement of groundwater in practical situations.
